This Planet is Doomed Quotes

“I pull the veil aside
and step through its portals
dreams rush to meet me.”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“wings greater than wings
wings greater than walls”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“Every desire
is an end

and every end
is a desire

then
the end of the world
is a desire of the world

what type of end do you desire?”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“I have a potent degree of love that is so
unwise
in one world that it is wisdom in another.”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“I'm one that will cause people to scratch
their heads in wonderment
in search of their hollow hearts
and look in their souls and wonder,
Where did he come from? What is he?”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“I have said before
that the music is the words
and the words are the music
It is all there for you to understand if you can
and for you to feel, regardless.”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“Seek not equality with either white
or any other nation
open your eyes and see
behind their pretended pleasure and
power is only impotence and despair.”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“Sink to the ground holding death's hand
oh comrade
if you are the father of great repose,
if you are all you seem and nothing more,
I'm glad that you are here.”
― Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry

“yet underneath it all it’s not in conscience another self hidden not in shame because sarcastically been on rushing from its hiding place and taken under its known this tale this proud, this boastful braggart of circumstance and dream that something calls life”
― Sun Ra, this planet is doomed

“let me write my music not for earth alone, but for the worlds”
― Sun Ra, this planet is doomed