Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different . . .
Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”