Present Cosmos

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or cosmos:

    Finally, in the last year of her age,
    Having attained a present blessedness,
    She said poetry and apotheosis are one.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    To sum up:
    1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.
    2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
    3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)