“
The secret strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee,
And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were Vacancy?
”
”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Mont Blanc: Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni = Monte Bianco : versi scritti nella valle di Chamonix : testo a fronte (Di monte in monte))