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Quotes About Universe

Ours is the universe of the unfolded rose, The explicit, The candid revelation.
~ D.H. Lawrence
No, it's man that poisons the universe," she asserted.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The universe isn't a spinning wheel. It is a cloud of bees flying and veering round. Thank goodness for that, for we were getting drunk on the spinning wheel.
~ D.H. Lawrence
You are connected with all beings in time, which permeates into every inch of the cosmic universe, and space, where everyone and everything exists together in peace and harmony.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Actualization is not just the manifestation of your individual experience of the truth; it is your life interconnected with a tree's life, a bird's life, water's life, spring's life, autumn's life, and the life of the whole universe.
~ Dainin Katagiri
The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is seen not as wonderful but as something that can be explained as a dyadic system.
~ Walker Percy
Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life...(How happy scientists are! Why didn't we become scientists, Percival? They confront problems which can be solved. We don't know what we confront. Does it have a name?)
~ Walker Percy
As a Bolling in Feliciana Parish, I became accustomed to sitting on the porch in the dark and talking of the size of the universe and the treachery of men; as a Smith on the Gulf Coast I have become accustomed to eating crabs and drinking beer under a hundred and fifty watt bulb - and one is as pleasant a way as the other in passing a summer night.
~ Walker Percy
All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life.
~ Walker Percy
Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.
~ Wally Lamb
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
~ Walt Whitman
A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars
~ Walt Whitman
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
~ Walt Whitman
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.
~ Walt Whitman
To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. -from Song of the Open Road
~ Walt Whitman
I sing the Equalities, modern or old, I sing the endless finales of things; I say Nature continues—Glory continues; I praise with electric voice; For I do not see one imperfection in the universe; And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe. O setting sun! though the time has come, I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
~ Walt Whitman
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes – but is that all?
~ Walt Whitman
I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
~ Walt Whitman
To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
~ Walt Whitman
And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as         profound as any.
~ Walt Whitman
The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer ... he is individual... he is complete in himself... the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not.
~ Walt Whitman
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
~ Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman4, americano, uno de los bárbaros, un universo, desordenadamente carnal y sensual... comiendo, bebiendo y engendrando, no soy un sentimental... no estoy por encima de los hombres y mujeres ni vivo aparte de ellos... no más modesto que inmodesto.
~ Walt Whitman
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
~ Walt Whitman