The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

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"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."

- Wallace Stevens

Love

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

- Wallace Stevens

Awareness

"The sun sets not on the world, but in us."

- Wallace Stevens

Self-awareness

"The imagination is man’s power over nature."

- Wallace Stevens

Creativity

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

- Wallace Stevens

Reflection

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration