This Is Poetry, People.
- Le Guin sums up her brief speech with a ton of metaphors.
- She insists that our roots are in the dark, so why look up for blessing? We should be looking around at everything around us, or even down, but not up.
- "Up" is man's world—"orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry."
- Her last line is gorgeous, so there's no replicating it: "Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls." Dang, that's beautiful.