“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles
Source: "Second Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”
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