Golden Fire. Makoto Fujimura

This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. Man is the second. 

Victor Hugo. LES MISERABLES.

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know 

of loves austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden. THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS.

...extreme subjectivity, prejudice and indeed idiosyncrasy are what helps art to avoid cliche. And the resistance to cliche is what distinguishes art from life.

Joseph Brodsky. How to Read a Book.