Of what is this house composed if not of the sun.

Wallace Stevens "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"

We tell you, tapping on our brows,

The story as it should be, — As if the story of a house

Were told, or ever could be.

Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Henry David Thoreau Walden

Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr [221]

Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn Day"

I have brought the great ball of crystal;

who can lift it? Can you enter the great acorn of light?

But the beauty is not the madness Tho' my errors and wrecks lie about me. And I am not a demigod, I cannot make it cohere. If love be not in the house there is nothing.

Ezra Pound "Canto CXVI"

Yeah well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.

Donn Pearce and Frank R. Pierson Cool Hand Luke