<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410475" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much of life in the world is waiting, that<br>This day was no exception, so we waited<br>All morning long and into the afternoon.<br>I spent some of the time remembering<br>Dante, who did the voyage in the mind<br>Alone, with no more nor heavier machinery<br>Than the ghost of a girl giving him guidance;<br>And wondered if much was lost to gain all this<br>New world of engine and energy, where dream<br>Translates into deed. But when the thing went up<br>It was indeed impressive, as if hell<br>Itself opened to send its emissary<br>In search of heaven or 'the unpeopled world'<br>(thus Dante of doomed Ulysses) 'behind the sun.'<br>So much of life in the world is memory<br>That the moment of the happening itself—<br>So much with noise and smoke and rising clear<br>To vanish at the limit of our vision<br>Into the light blue light of afternoon—<br>Appeared no more, against the void in aim,<br>Than the flare of a match in sunlight, quickly snuffed.<br>What yet may come of this? We cannot know.<br>Great things are promised, as the promised land<br>Promised to Moses that he would not see<br>But a distant sight of, though the children would.<br>The world is made of pictures of the world,<br>And the pictures change the world into another world<br>We cannot know, as we knew not this one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410475" data-title="Witnessing the Launch of the Shuttle Atlantis de Howard Nemerov" data-description="So much of life in the world is waiting, that This day was no exception, so we waited All morning long and into the afternoon. I spent some of the time remembering Dante, who did the voyage in the mind Alone, with no more nor heavier machinery Tha..."></div> </div> </div>

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