... this world will cool down, a star among the stars, one of the tiniest, a speck of gilt on blue velvet, that is, our vast world. this world will cool down one day, not even like an ice heap or a dead cloud, it will roll like an empty walnut in the pitch-black, boundless void. ...
from the poem On Living by Nazım Hikmet translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk (1993)