“The deep spaces between stars,
Fathomless as the cold shadow
His mind cast.”
"Wallace Stevens", p. 25
The Bread of Truth (1963)
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Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
Chế Lan Viên (1920–1989) Vietnamese writer
"The Funeral Procession", as quoted in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), p. 164
Claudia Alexander (1959–2015) American geophysicist and planetary scientist
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“Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.”
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Source: Chapter 13 (p. 215) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet
"Arachne" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 34.
The Complete Poems
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)
Context: We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination