Famous quotes containing the words ball, bearing and/or world:
“The world was a huge ball then, the universe a might harmony of ellipses, everything moved mysteriously, incalculable distances through the ether.
We used to feel the awe of the distant stars upon us. All that led to was the eighty-eight naval guns, ersatz, and the night air-raids over cities. A magnificent spectacle.
After the collapse of the socialist dream, I came to America.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Rosenbloom is dead.
The tread of the carriers does not halt
On the hill, but turns
Up the sky.
They are bearing his body into the sky.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The world below the brine,
Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)