[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a po — Carl Sagan
[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a po — Carl Sagan
[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a po — Carl Sagan
[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a po — Carl Sagan
[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a po — Carl Sagan
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[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.

— Carl Sagan
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