Great Literature Quotes - Ummon from Fall of Hyperion

"The Lord and the Colonel" by Alex Ries. Another great scene from the 2nd book in this four book series.

There's a lot of truth to be found reading between the lines. I want to capture some unique moments from novels in this new category of my blog. Currently I am reading through Dan Simmons' fantastic Hyperion cantos and in the middle of the second book I stumbled across these words of mystery and wisdom. Ummon, one of the great artificial intelligences in this far fiction series on why Old Earth (our planet) was destroyed:

The Earth was needed elsewhere
in our experiments
so we let it die
and spread humankind among the
stars
like the windblown seeds
you were

Poetic.