With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. - Heinrich Heine

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen

Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten,
Dass ich so traurig bin;
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.

The ancient, tremulous woman who was sitting behind the stove opposite the big cupboard may have sat there for a quarter of a century, and her thoughts and feelings are closely interwoven with every corner of the stove and every carving on the cupboard. And the stove and cupboard are alive, for part of a human soul has entered into them.