You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.
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in a speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007John Amaechi
It is important to realize that the exercise of any skill depends on the ability to create an abstract system of some kind out of the totality of the world around us. For instance, the carpenter is not interested in wood as a biological or chemical entity. He is sensitive to many of its grosser physical properties but not to many subtler ones. The wood of a carpenter is not the real — that is, the complete substance — but merely wood as a material on which the carpenter can exercise his skill.
Kenneth Boulding
The saws are sawing wood, But wood is also sawing the saws...The wood sawn into boards is fashioned into furniture. Saws just break and are discarded.
Liu Shahe
Axes
After whose stroke the wood rings,
And the echoes!
Echoes travelling
Off from the centre like horses.Sylvia Plath
Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains
It is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.James Dickey
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean,
The track aches only when the rain reminds.
The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood,
The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm.
The blinded man sees with his ears and hands
As much or more than once with both his eyes.Robert Graves
Amaechi, John
Amat, Nuria
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