
“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
As quoted by James Gleick in Lasers slow atom for scrutiny, The New York Times, July 13, 1986: Explaining how atoms are cooled.
St. XX
Adonais (1821)
“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
As quoted by James Gleick in Lasers slow atom for scrutiny, The New York Times, July 13, 1986: Explaining how atoms are cooled.
The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, p. 1.
Also included in Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, ed. Irving Shepard, Introduction, p. vii (1956)
Context: I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
“Love beyond all telling,
Goodness beyond imagining,
Light of infinite intensity
Glows in my heart.”
The Lauds
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
“Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
“The rhythm of a poem ceases the moment the feeling loses its intensity.”
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)