“Part of the spell comes from mystery—the fourfold mystery of the shoreline, the surface, the horizon and the timeless motion of the sea. The thin, moving line between land and water on an open coast presents a nearly impenetrable wall.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“Yang Fudong’s project underlines where poets do go already – wherever humans are found culturally and we ought to shamelessly seize the project of being actors, sages, scholars ourselves, walking around without a story or a line. Without a panel, a reading or a talk. Maybe just a pulse.”
Myles, Eileen. “calling all poets.” Poetry Foundation, June 23, 2009.
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“This native garden bordering on a wetland and estuary is a landscape that has been restored, reclaimed as public land—through long and sustained political battles involving many agencies and alliances— and now it is being preserved. Some battles are won, some are lost, and sometimes the dividing line between victors and vanquished is decidedly indecisive.”
Stern, Lesley. “A Garden or a Grave? The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region.” In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, ed. by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, and Heather Anne Swanson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. pp. 17-18.
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“Duration
Those flurries
of small pecks
my mother called
leaky faucet kisses.
Late sun winks
from a power line
beyond the neighbor’s tree.
In heaven,
where repetition’s
not boring—
Silver whistles
of blackbirds
needle
the daylong day.”
Armantrout, Rae. “Duration.” Money Shot. Middletown: Wesleyan Univ Press, 2012. p. 49.
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Clouds under the thought that / proved too short / Just as one rests an / hypotenuse there is a feeling / of hopelessness / The line is not continuous / A stroke in sight and / blinking…
Armantrout, Rae. Collected Prose. San Diego: Singing Horse Press, 2007. p. 116.
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“The difference between calculated and measured values are distressingly large. Only one general trend remains. The nuclei in the upper group, nearer to the line for j=l+ 1/2 are indeed those for which we found that spin and orbital angular momentum are parallel, those in the lower group were assigned anti-parallel orientation.”
Goeppert Mayer, Maria. “The Shell Model.” Transcript of speech delivered at the Auditorium of the University of Oslo, December 12, 1963.
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“The ocean holds me in an enduring spell. Part of the spell comes from mystery—the fourfold mystery of the shoreline, the surface, the horizon and the timeless motion of the sea. The thin, moving line between land and water on an open coast presents a nearly impenetrable wall. The ships and fishing boats I watch from my living-room window exist in a separate world, as re mote as another planet. Below the sur face there is a multitude of living things, darting and watching, living and dying; theirs is an alien world I cannot see and can hardly imagine. At the horizon, where my line of sight touches the edge of the great globe itself, I watch ships slowly disappear, first the hulls and then the tall masts, bound on voyages to un known ports 10,000 miles away.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“The solubility of the salt, the lather-producing power of the soap, the inflammability of the wood, and the capacity for romantic love of the human being, are attributes of the second group, since they are never revealed or operative until the bodies are brought into a particular relation with other bodies. The line of separation between the two groups is not hard and fast.”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life: Three Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. pp. 72-3.
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