“Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.”

—  Dejan Stojanovic

Inner Space http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21400/Inner_Space
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poet, writer, and businessman 1959

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