184 § Poetry, Language, Thought
were indicated in regard to this thinking alone. But it never occurs to anyone to ask whence Plato had a directive to think of Being as idea, or whence Kant had the directive to think of Being as the transcendental character of objectness, as position (being posited).
But maybe someday the answer to these questions can be gained from those ventures of thought which, like mine, look as though they were lawless caprice.
I can provide no credentials for what I have said— which, indeed, you do not ask of me—that would permit a convenient check in each case whether what I say agrees with "reality."
Everything here is the path of a responding that examines as it listens. Any path always risks going astray, leading astray. To follow such paths takes practice in going. Practice needs craft. Stay on the path, in genuine need, and learn the craft of thinking, unswerving, yet erring.
Yours in friendship,