The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“Every body that is moved continues to move so long as the impression of the force of its mover is retained in it, therefore the movement of this wing with violence… will come to move the whole bird with it until the impetus of the moved air has been consumed.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
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Source: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter, p.156
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.”
"Keeping Things Whole" (1969)
Source: Selected Poems
Context: p>In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.</p
VII. On the Nature of the World and its Eternity.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“Without moving anything / I want to see / the way this autumn / makes the birds move.”
From Syksy muuttaa linnut (Autumn Moves the Birds, 1961. 88 Poems, WSOY, 2000, ISBN 951-0-24783-9. Translated by Anselm Hollo).
“The less democratic a country is, the move intense its foreign violence.”
Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 109
“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”