A lot of people say that you have to do this before you do that, but that’s just nonsense. What you have to be able to do is know what it is you’re about, and then get there. That’s all you need to know. You only need the technique to do what you want to do; people tell you that you need that other stuff, but you don’t.
“I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
That grew elm-oak amid the wold.
‘Twas not until the gods had been
Kindly entreated, and been brought within
Unto the hearth of their heart’s home
That they might do this wonder thing;
Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
And many a new thing understood
That was rank folly to my head before.”
Ezra Pound | “The Tree”