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8.

A society can be stone-hard

That it fuses into a block

A people can be so bone-hard

That life goes into shock

And the heart is all in shadow

And the heart has almost stopped

Till some begin to build

A city as soft as a body

Inger Christensen, It, Susanna Nied (trad.), Anne Carson (intr.), New Directions Books, 2006 (originalmente publicado em dinamarquês em 1969).