If you're an old chicagoan (I grew up in Hinsdale), perhaps you remember who said the following line at the end of his show.
"The world stands out on either side...
No wider than the heart is wide...."
There's more, but I forget it. Garroway? Lescoulie? Or? That little verse has been ringing in my ears for decades.
I can't recall who said it, but this is what pops up on Google:
July, 1966 Sheng-t'u chih Sheng (Chinese Liahona)
by Van Therald (Robert J. Morris)The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky;--
No higher than the soul is high.
It's a line from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
"The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky--
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat - the sky
Will cave in on him by and by."
-- from Renascence
Maybe you remember it from velvet-voiced Franklyn MacCormack's late night radio program. He used to play moody music and recite poetry from midnight till dawn.
http://www.nwfolk.com/franklyn.html