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“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.”

World Beautiful Stars Felt Saws This World Wall Stones Skins Emptiness Detachment Fusion Numbness Separateness

Book:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

“I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.”

Source: To the End of Time

“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Stars Beauty Bird Skins Footprint Moss

Book:A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.”

Stars Planets Skins Tiny Locals Dozen

Book:Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Source: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors