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And space, what it is like? Is it mechanical,
Newtonian? A frozen prison?
Or the lofty space of Einstein, the relation
Between movement and movement? No reason to pretend
I know. I don't know, and if I did,
Still my imagination is a thousand years old.
--
" An Appeal" (1954)

 

Czeslaw Milosz

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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

 

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