Distance Light Travels

Famous quotes containing the words distance, light and/or travels:

    “Letters to absence can a voice impart,
    And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “The splendor falls on castle walls
    And snowy summits old in story;
    The long light shakes across the lakes,
    And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
    Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
    Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “... forgotten signs
    all bringing the soul’s travels to a place
    of origin, a well
    under the lake where the Muse moves.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)