"Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. * * * * * * But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray."

"Dieu est le poète, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs. Ces grandes pièces qui se jouent sur la terre ont été composées dans le ciel."

"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

"This world's a bubble."

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."

"Securus judicat orbis terrarum."

"Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn."

"This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun."

"The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."

"This world is strange and incomprehensible, and there are many people who are lost and worried. When you ask who is the oppressor, it turns out that everyone is oppressed.~~ March 8, 2025"

"I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own."

"This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."

"O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers."

"If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,—some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other."

"the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown"

"Making a perpetual mansion of this poor baiting place."

"Our leaders tell us there is only one world: the existing world, the globalised world, the hegemonic world. ‘Either sink or swim’, they say. The truth of the matter is that the working people are sinking in the globalised world, while the elite are swimming in it. It is clear therefore that there is a contest between two worldviews: one which wants to maintain the existing world; the other that wants to create an alternative world. Which worldview do we share? We must make a choice, and act in accordance with our choice. [...] The pundits of the status quo have in common with all dominating classes and hegemonic powers the assumption that the existing world is the only realistic world, and no alternative world is possible. Yet, it is the struggle for an alternative world, a better world, which has changed the past and will continue to change the present for a better future. We, the activists, together with the working people, must continue to fight for a better world. An alternative world is possible."

"The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn."

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

"Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything."

"The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."

"Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano: A stage where every man must play a part."

"To be imprisoned in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence around about The pendent world."

"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them."

"Mad world. Mad kings. Mad composition."

"Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is in this world but grief and woe?"

"For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away."

"How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!"

"This wide and universal theatre Presents more woful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in."

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players."

"Non sum uni angulo natus; patria mea totus hic est mundus."

"Most people in the world are poor. If we knew the economy of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matter. Most of the world's poor people earn their living in agriculture. If we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economic of being poor."

"Denn nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert."

"Es liebt die Welt, das Stralende zu schwärzen Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn."

"Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something."

"The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynn orderr founde."

"Le monde est le livre des femmes."

"The world of the future will not flourish behind walls—no matter who builds them and no matter what their purpose. A world divided economically must inevitably be a world divided politically. As Secretary of State, I cannot contemplate that prospect with anything but deep disquiet."

"All nations and kindreds and people and tongues."

"Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purify the mind. A corrupted mind can't recognize the beauty of the world. A pure mind perceives it."

"My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought."

"Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your (full compensation) on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained (his desire). And what is the life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion."

"But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see; And where, tho' all things differ, all agree."

"Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds, and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him he returned this answer: "Do you not think it is a matter worthy of lamentation that where there is such a vast multitude of them we have not yet conquered one?""

"To me it seems that they who grasp the world, The kingdom and the power and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness."

"Quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem."