Crystal Matrix

Famous quotes containing the words crystal and/or matrix:

“A crystal of breath,
your irreversible
witness.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)