„I never saw a moor,I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks,And what a wave must be.I never spoke with God,Nor visited in heaven;Yet certain am I of the spotAs if the chart were given.“

— Emily Dickinson

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„Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.“
— Haruki Murakami
„I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.“
— Thomas Wolfe
„We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them — this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."“
— Ronald Reagan