Colin F. Jones

WRITING – REASONS AND RESPONSES

I always told myself that if I could not write verse from the point of view of another then I could not call myself a poet. It is a simple matter to write what I feel disinclined to question.

People did not ask me the questions so I decided to put them to myself. If you don’t question your own actions and thoughts, how then can you question those of another? How then can you reach any conclusions?

I would be preaching at a pulpit or teaching philosophy at a university had I the inflexibility of the institutionalized mind.

I am not the pupil of men; I am the pupil of nature and my own experience. I don’t require approval, respect, or admiration; such vanities are obstacles to appreciating such defects in others.

I see people as they really are not as they would like to be seen – for none are that. I set out always to find out the nature of the other. Therein lies my concern; not concern for myself.

You cannot refuse me respect I did not seek; that is your own dilemma.

People react to what I say according to the way their own minds think; not according to the way my mind thinks. Some will seek to feel superior – and achieve it. They will think they have won and I will be happy because they think I have lost – so will they.