Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
“We can never be closer somehow
For the moment that lasts…
Is this moment now?”
Song lyrics, Islands (1987)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Mike Oldfield 97
English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953Related quotes
“Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.”
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), Chapter One : The Fear of Poetry
Context: Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth!
How do we use feeling?
How do we use truth! However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
If we use the resources we now have, we and the world itself may move in one fullness. Moment to moment, we can grow, if we can bring ourselves to meet the moment with our lives.
“In its last moment, the whole of my life will last only a moment.”
En último instante, toda mi vida durará un instante.
Voces (1943)

“The experience of the moment is what's important, and somehow the image, the 'thing' is left over.”
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings