Hejinian 12: "one can't write a book about 'everything'"
"Indeed, at least according to the opening of John Ashbery's 'The New Spirit,' the first of the poems published in Three Poems (1972), the better course is to leave everything (or, to use his term, all) out: 'I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave all out would be another, and truer, way."