Distance Light Travels

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

    “Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
    From this distance in time,
    it seems the color
    of iris, rotting and turning purpler,

    but it was only
    the usual gray rock”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.”
    —Jerome (c. 340–420)

    “... 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)