“I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.” SawsAirTreeLatterSwimmingSpidersAugustBarnsHay Author:Robert Lowell
“In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.” BelievePersonsSaidForceI BelieveSawsHappenedAirPaidCamerasWingsPlanesUfoAir ForceBelgians Author:Robert Stack
“There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fair; And all that had sense to reason knew That bloody drama must be gone through. Some sat and watched how the action veered-- Waited, profited, trembled, cheered-- We saw not clearly nor understood, But yielding ourselves to the masterhand, Each in his part as best he could, We played it through as the author planned.” MadeWarReasonHandsActionEarthNightStarsMorningGoneSawsAirDramaUnderstoodFairsInfiniteSatBloodyGorgeous Author:Alan Seeger
“You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.” SawsAirAncientBuddhistSunsetChemicalsOptimistAncient EgyptAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.” WayHeartLongHardEarthLastsMotherGirlHouseBreakSawsAirFeetSkyFieldsBrokenColdWalkingMoonSpringMouthsDaughterToughStonesBlueMovedWinterIceSatLakesShyFlatsMy DaughterFrozenLong WayBlue SkyMy GirlNew MoonGraniteBare FeetFrozen Lake Author:Carol Ann Duffy
“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.” MenWantEarthInterestWaterSawsCuttingAirLandObjectsPlanetsConcernWitnessVietnamVeteranMemorialPolishedWant To TravelAir And WaterVietnam VeteranGeologic Time Author:Maya Lin
“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.” IfsBelieveWellsWantedAsksSpaceSupportStruggleSawsGreaterAirPossibilityWindMachinesStrongerSpeedConquerGentlemanAviationReceivingPredictionsAdaptedSusceptible Author:Jules Verne
“Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.” FeelsBodyEarthLastsTurnsEnjoyLordSawsGrowingAirGreenEmbraceInstantLapPillowSuspendedCrucifixionPigeonsSlow MotionVoluptuous Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.” EndsGuyWaitingWonderMorningSawsAirDesignColorFineLonelyWake UpPaintShirtsParksThe End Of The DaySuspectsFloatingT ShirtAmusementParticlesMistSprayAmusement Parks Author:Ian Caldwell
“I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.” YearsSawsFourAirPeriodsArmyFour YearsNew Zealand Author:Rhys Darby
“Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution.” HumansWellsSaidPoliticalPresidentSawsRightsAirMilitarySpeechHuman RightsLawyerComedianOpponentsSpokesFreedom Of SpeechExpansionEgyptArrestedRetributionDefendersIslamistsPolitical Opponents Author:Leila Fadel
“As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.” LastsWhiteSawsAirMembersSpringStandardsBirdBreathsFatsShirtsGiantsPantsWildlifeBirdsongMarshmallowWhite ShirtsPervs Author:Rob Thurman
“The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.” FirstsSawsAirMinutesFirst TimeMachinesPantsGravity Author:Gary Busey
“When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.” PeopleIfsWorldWayYearsWarHouseGrowsBornCommunitySawsAirStonesDown AndMovedSouthWar Of The WorldsAbandonedWorld War IiWorld War IAgricultureUrbanDetroitVacantUp In The AirBlight Author:Grace Lee Boggs