Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless <br />Pool of the stars. (Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.) <br /> <br />Guard yourself from perceiving the inherent nastiness of man and woman. <br />(Expose yourself to it: you might learn something.) <br /> <br />Faith, as they now confess, is preposterous, an act of will. Choose the Christian sheep-cote <br />Or the Communist rat-fight: faith will cover your head from the man-devouring stars.<br /><br />Robinson Jeffers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/quia-absurdum/
