“You need not see what someone is doing

to know if it is his vocation,

 

you have only to watch his eyes:

a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon

 

making a primary incision,

a clerk completing a bill of lading,

 

wear the same rapt expression, forgetting

themselves in a function.

 

How beautiful it is,

that eye-on-the-object look.”

 

~ W. H. Auden