“ Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles. Theodor Storm
“ [She was] a strange butterfly which had flown across his garden and which his eyes had continued to follow long after it had disappeared from sight. Theodor Storm
“ I heard nothing, but ever more clearly as the light of the half-moon grew sharper, I thought I could make out a dark shape, and soon, as it came nearer, I saw it. It sat on a horse, a high-boned, hagg… Theodor Storm
“ Back in those days there was still an unbroken stretch of heath that lay on the route of our excursions, all that was left of a heath that once had extended almost up to the town on the one side and a… Theodor Storm