„Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, “Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?”“

— H.P. Lovecraft

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„I suppose I must be out of sorts to feel everything so deeply. Sometimes, however, it seems to me that i am not really a human being at all, but like a bird or a beast in human form. I feel so much more at home even in a scrap of garden like the one here, an dstill more in the meadows when the grass is humming with bees than - at one of the our party congresses.“
— Rosa Luxemburg
„For what cause, youthful Sleep, kindest of gods, or what error have I deserved, alas to lack your boon? All cattle are mute and birds and beasts, and the nodding tree-tops feign weary slumbers, and the raging rivers abate their roar; the ruffling of the waves subsides, the sea is still, leaning against the shore.“
— Statius
„And the poor in their fireless lodgings, dropping the sheetsOf the evening paper: "Our day is our loss, O show usHistory the operator, theOrganiser, Time the refreshing river." And the nations combine each cry, invoking the lifeThat shapes the individual belly and ordersThe private nocturnal terror:"Did you not found the city state of the sponge,"Raise the vast military empires of the sharkAnd the tiger, establish the robin's plucky canton?Intervene. Descend as a dove orA furious papa or a mild engineer, but descend."“
— W. H. Auden