Apollo quotes
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"in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members."
"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo."
"The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure."
"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."
"The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting."
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"We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share."
"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
"The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies."
"The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal"
"Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word."
"I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo."
"Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue."
"Inscribed on the temple of Apollo"
