Preface - Electronic Poetry Center

However, I would resist the equivalence Ed asserts between Stein and
Whitman. Stein, it seems to me, pursued something of the opposite, something
like the "truth of language," leading eventually, I think, to Creeley’s
(approximately) "I follow the words."
In any case, my point is that those two terms help to establish the perpetual
sense of displacement (chronic OR morphic) that any writer "experiences."