Take the general mumble, <br />blunt as the faceless gut <br />of an anonymous clam, <br />vernacular as the strut <br />of a slug or a small preamble <br />by snail under hump of home: <br /> <br />metamorphose the mollusk <br />of vague vocabulary <br />with the structural discipline: <br />stiffen the ordinary <br />malleable mask <br />to the granite grin of bone. <br /> <br />For such a tempering task, <br />heat furnace of paradox <br />in an artifice of ice; <br />make love and logic mix, <br />and remember, if tedious risk <br />seems to jeopardize this: <br /> <br />it was a solar turbine <br />gace molten earth a frame <br />and it took the diamond stone <br />a weight of world and time <br />being crystallized from carbon <br />to the hardest substance known.<br /><br />Sylvia Plath<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/notes-to-a-neophyte/
