So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agon...ies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of e...xistence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry.... You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead-- There were no birds to fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent, So those who enter death must go as little children sent.... Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping In the river, never heard... Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves Fling off their iron and cut the green, Leaving circles new and clean While overhead the wing-tips whirred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting o...ut at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constantly risking absurdity and death... whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »