“And space, what it is like? Is it mechanical,
Newtonian? A frozen prison?
Or the lofty space of Einstein, the relation
Between movement and movement? No reason to pretend
I know. I don't know, and if I did,
Still my imagination is a thousand years old.”

—  Czeslaw Milosz

" An Appeal" (1954)
From the Rising of the Sun (1974)

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