“Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.” WorldFacesUniverseStarsMy OwnSpaceWatchesSkyInvolvedMirrorsRegardSurfaceShells Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.” SaidEarthForceStarsLandPlanetsArmsMoonShotsShellsCoinsConquestMonopoly Author:Robert Anton Wilson