Distance Light Travels

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

    “Honor the spirits, but keep your distance from them.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    “Ye say they all have passed away,
    That noble race and brave;
    That their light canoes have vanished
    From off the crested wave;
    That, mid the forests where they roamed,
    There rings no hunters’ shout;
    But their name is on your waters,
    Ye may not wash it out.”
    —Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)

    “... 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)