
Endymion

“Father included poetry and music and art as part of that response to nature,”
Dan Simmons • Endymion
Life is brutal that way … the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
Dan Simmons • Endymion
Ultimate Intelligence—a cybernetic deity that would spread its power back through time to dominate the universe. Indeed,
Dan Simmons • Endymion
More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity.”
Dan Simmons • Endymion
all forms and substances/Straight homeward to their symbol-essences …”
Dan Simmons • Endymion
“But there are Richer entanglements far
Dan Simmons • Endymion
imaginative and sensuous response to nature
Dan Simmons • Endymion
There were two higher stages.”
Dan Simmons • Endymion
“It’s a fallible but human way of resonating to the universe—nature creates that energy of creation in us. For Father imagination and truth were the same thing.