But the problem of relating pictorial space to temporal length might best be left to poets. Whereupon a poem forms of itself. Learn about Time, from Time. Enter into Time, sharing its delicate life and its feelings. Whereupon a composition forms itself.
Composition essentializes the flow of time.
All subsequent Feldman essays cited are from this collection. Jackson Pollock also agonized over size. Earle Brown made this statement. But memory could operate otherwise as well. One chord might be repeated three times, another, seven or eight - depending on how long I felt it should go on.