When you're looking that far out, you're giving pe... -Story Musgrave

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Story Musgrave , Astronaut
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Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environ...
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within t...
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need tra...
I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it....
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as oppo...
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Eve...
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communi...

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...