From "Tell Me A Story" by Robert Penn Warren:
Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.
Later, we learn that writing is the process of accumulating images so that the fanciful associations of the dead past are transformed into imaginative associations in the future tense of joy.
We must rest transparently in the spirit that gives us rise and reject despair. If we cannot rest transparently, and force upon it a form and logic, then we are in despair. Resting transparently requires faith.
(This notion of despair comes from Kierkegaard).
Anything you think about writing when not writing is wrong. The outline is an expression of despair.
