„Sister, motherAnd spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehoodTeach us to care and not to care“
— T.S. Eliot
„The beauty, the spirit of Germany, its sun, moon, stars, rocks, seas and rivers can never be expressed this way..“
— Caspar David Friedrich
„Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.“
— Margaret Fuller