The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

Mark Doty
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The idea that nothing is solid, and physical reality is constantly changing, was one of the central ideas of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. His ideas about the nature of the world and how we perceive it have influenced many thinkers and artists throughout history. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

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