“Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you
To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega!”
"Black Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Tip" in Skyhook #23 (Winter 1954-55); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Context: Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you
To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega! No use. No act
Of mine or mind denies the ante-cerebellum fact
Of furry you, poised fleetingly, bright flex,
Black reflex, too leaping for me to ink and fix
As period to end what has no period, no, no
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American science fiction writer 1918–2009Related quotes
Salon interview (1996)
Context: When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language. Most people in India are multilingual, and if you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.
“Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.”
Stanza 14.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
“Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."”
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
“It's YMCMB the fuckin alpha and omega”
So Dedicated
Official Mix tapes, Dedication 4 (2012)
Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.”
Quoted in Theatre Arts Magazine, December 1955 http://books.google.com/books?id=jkNNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+kiss+can+be+a+comma+a+question+mark+or+an+exclamation+point%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
“Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.”
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus (1981); Online excerpt http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16007
“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
5; variant translations:
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
As quoted in The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols (1959) by Max Lerner, p. 452; also in Wait Without Idols (1964) by Gabriel Vahanian, p, 216; in Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation (1995) by Vivian Heller, 39; in "The Sheltering Sky" (1949) by Paul Bowles, p. 213; and in the poem "Father and Son" by Delmore Schwartz.
There is a point of no return. This point has to be reached.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Source: The Trial