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…No whisper mars

The utter silence of the untranslated stars.

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e.e. cummings | excerpt from ‘Summer Silence’

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince | pg. 77

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‘I love the stars, and I’m almost angry with the Sun for overpowering them.’

‘I can never forgive it,’ I cried, ‘for making me lose sight of all those worlds.’

‘What do you mean, worlds?’ she asked, turning to me.

‘Excuse me,’ I answered. ‘You’ve set me onto my weakness, and my imagination is getting the best of me.’

‘What is this weakness?’ she asked, not to be deterred.

‘I’m ashamed to admit it,” I said, “but I have a peculiar notion that every star could well be a world. I wouldn’t swear that it’s true, but I think so because it pleases me to think so. The idea sticks in my mind in a most delightful way. As I see it, this pleasure is an integral part of truth itself.’

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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds | pg. 10

"all day the stars watch from long ago…"

W.S. Merwin 

"I always feared that any movement on my part would dislodge the stars or alter the skies."

Fernando Pessoa | The Book of Disquiet | pg. 185

"‘Truth does not exist, no doubt, in order to allow our truths to exist,’ he said. And he added, ‘Once the sun sets in the celestial void, a myriad of stars shimmer for our upturned eyes. O solitude of each one. ‘We wander in death, enlightened by our insistent truths.’"

Edmond Jabes

Stars Tiny Desk Concert on NPR

(Source: NPR)