„I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„I would build a cloudy HouseFor my thoughts to live in;When for earth too fancy-looseAnd too low for Heaven!Hush! I talk my dream aloud -I build it bright to see, -I build it on the moonlit cloud,To which I looked with thee.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning