The Weaver-God, He Weaves

THE WEAVER-GOD, HE WEAVES;
and by that weaving is he deafened,
that he hears no mortal voice;
and by that humming, we, too,
who look on the loom are deafened;
and only when we escape it
shall we hear the thousand voices
that speak through it.

(Herman Melville, Moby Dick, "A Bower in the Arsacides")