Swift Network

Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or network:

    Jove, nodding, shook the Heavens, and said,
    ‘Offending race of human kind,
    By nature, reason, learning, blind;
    You who through frailty stepped aside,
    And you who never fell—through pride;
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.
    Gérard De Nerval (1808–1855)