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Saturday, June 14, 2025

“Now, you intelligence . . . .”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:10 am
 

Now, you intelligence
So late dredged up from dark
Upon whose smoky walls
Bison took fumbling form
Or flint was edged on flint–
Now, careful arriviste,
Delineate at will
Incisions in the ice.

Be serious, because
The stone may have contempt
For too-familiar hands,
And because all you do
Loses or gains by this:
Respect the adversary,
Meet it with tools refined,
And thereby set your price.

— From the Adrienne Rich poem
"The Diamond Cutters."  (1955)

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