Showing posts with label vast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vast. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2016

Vastness




Say-vast----grasp sixth sense
infinite measure by word
cosmic calm as ohm

"In the word vast, the vowel a, retains all the virtues of an enlarging vocal agent. Considered vocally, therefore, this word is no longer merely dimensional. Like some soft substance, it receives the balsamic powers of infinite calm. With it, we take infinity into our lungs, and through it, we breathe cosmically, far from human anguish."- Gaston Bachelard by John R. Stilgoe from ‘The Poetics of Space’ 


Image By Menke Dave, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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