Distance Light Travels

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

    “And then he heard some old forgotten talk
    At a short distance like a hundred miles
    Filling the air with its secrecy,
    And was afraid of all the living air....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The modern city hardly knows pure darkness or pure silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “... 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)