Quotes about "Space & Cosmic Perspective"

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference. ”

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me. ”

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place. ”

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen. ”

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. ”

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ”

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?' ”

When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents. ”

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect. ”

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated. ”