that the drama is wholly subjective
stone knowing the form which the carver imparts it
the stone knows the form
sia Cythera, sia Ixotta, sia in Santa Maria dei Miracoli
          where Pietro Romano has fashioned the bases
Ο᾿Υ ΤΙΣ
a man on whom the sun has gone down
nor shall diamond die in the avalanche
                    be it torn from its setting
first must destroy himself ere others destroy him.

(Ezra Pound, Canto 74, lines 187–196.)