World Single Distance

Famous quotes containing the words world, single and/or distance:

    “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and that they dwell therein.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “The pure serene of memory in one man,—
    A ripple widening from a single stone
    Winding around the waters of the world.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
    Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
    Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.”
    —Thom Gunn (b. 1929)