„Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed.“

— Robert Frost
„What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.“
— Cesare Pavese
„Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.“
— John Cage