Distance.
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
On the same-sex marriage controversy in the Church of England. <br class="br"> "Tony Benn: The glorious revolutionary" http://www.journal-online.co.uk/article/3082-tony-benn-the-glorious-revolutionary, The Journal (26 March 2008). <br class="br">2000s
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Stanza xvii.
One Word More (1855)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IX : Faith, Hope, and Charity
“As small as a world as large as alone.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
"maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962
Variant: may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
Context: milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
(2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/FtU4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906&printsec=frontcover New Yale Book of Quotations
Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Malaysia, (28 August 2017)[citation needed].
“When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Meaning" (1991)
