动画中的诗句绝美至极。
"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. "
古舟子咏 —— 柯勒律治
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
诗文中此句出现，年迈水手向生命发起祝福，水手背负诅咒随着脖子上的信天翁尸体落入水中，水手因此才得安眠。这里非常契合女主带着同伴尸体艰难行走的疲惫。
"Who spilled these stars across the sky
like sparkling dust, like clouds of light?
They pour their milky shine
into the deep black bowl "
The Milky Way by Barbara Juster Esbensen
“谁将这些星星洒满天空，像闪光的尘埃，像发光的云？
他们将乳白色的光芒倾入黑色的碗中”
女主在减轻痛苦的致幻剂作用下周围的景象。
"I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself "
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon by Wallace Stevens
胡恩宫殿里的茶话 —— 华莱士·史蒂文斯
“ 我是我行走于其中的世界，我之所见所听或所感，全部来自我自己”
女主所见的巨岩正幻化成巨大的同伴身体。
“ And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine”
She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth
她是个快乐的精灵 —— 威廉·华兹华斯
The Very Pulse of the Machine 是本集动画题目，也对应短篇科幻小说名字。
“现在我用沉静的目光见到的，恰是机器的脉冲颤跳”
女主发现“machine”所指。
“ The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone ”
The Prelude , or Growth of a Poet's Mind by William Wordsworth
“大理石索引的灵魂，孤独地航行在陌生的思想海洋”
此诗似是为了赞美牛顿，其前两句是
“ The antechapel where the statue stood
Of Newton, with his prism and silent face”
很诗意，充满哲思，爱上了土卫四。
