Space, Area Quotes

Nationality does not matter. Wherever and whenever you are, there are always similarities. Between humans, that is.

Nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing.

Any town, New York, Chicago, with its people, becomes improbable with distance. Just as I am improbable here, in Illinois, in a small town by a ' quiet lake. All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another. And it is so good to hear the sounds, and know that Mexico City is still there and the people moving and living...

Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine

City

Existence

I go through
trillions of molecules
that move aside
to make way for me
while on both sides
trillions more
stay where they are.
The windshield wiper blade
starts to squeak.
The rain has stopped.
I stop.
On the corner
a boy
in a yellow raincoat
holding his mother’s hand.

Paterson

Time

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour
Voyage, voyage
Dans l'espace inorii de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacree d'un fleuve indien,
Voyage, voyage
Et jamais ne revient.

The land is flat here and it's wintertime. There's nowhere to hide.

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