“Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;

The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.”

( A.E. Housman no title in A Shropshire lad)
Wuppertal (D)

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“Creak, little wood thing, creak,
When I touch you with elbow or knee;
That is the way you speak
Of one who gave you to me!

You, little table, she brought –
Brought me with her own hand,
As she looked at me with a thought
That I did not understand.

– Whoever owns it anon,
And hears it, will never know
What a history hangs upon
This creak from long ago.”

(Thomas Hardy The little old table)
Liège (B)

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“Nowadays we can see a lot of graduated ones
Proud and arrogant they all stand
But are all of them educated or not?
That’s for you to make the sort.”

(Han Min Ohn in The graduated and the educated)
Liège (B)

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“All that you see will in a moment be changed by the nature which governs the Whole: it will create other things out of this material, and then again others out of that, so that the world is always young”

(Marcus Aurelius in Meditations book 7-25)
Eschweiler (D)

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