A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.
Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”