Voyager Quotes

“Each week, I plan an assignment. Students, interrogate form down to the last comma. Students, broadcast the crimes of history.”
― Srikanth Reddy, Voyager

“I tried to cut through
all our hurried centuries,
lost in a forest within.


Men
broke by war
emerged in frightful shape—


more than human
but also less,
they were quite aware,


the sovereign dead,
that time is like a window
opening up the sad patterns of never.


As one they advanced—
Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau


Adolph Hitler
—through history.
But the past does not follow


so straightforward a path
said I
(predictably in Italian),


and, burning
under their masters,
they proclaimed


the world a pendulum.
It is possible,
but this gives rise


to the often-heard complaint
that repetition is unavoidable.
Still time issues into today,


little fathers.
The years, I believe,
can be shaped with one’s hands.


The world
—its obscure moving fields,
Persian tragedies,


and countries in peace—
I had to inform
that council of the lost,


remains an instrument,
a valve instrument,
which, when waning,


is perfectly clear in the pit
—and, being given
to such classical concepts


as freedom and necessity,
laboriously continued
in the traditional way—


I believe I believe.”
― Srikanth Reddy, Voyager