Aurel's laurels

From the ever excellent A.Word.A.Day.

"To know how to say what other people only think is what makes men poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers, or both". Elizabeth Rundle Charles, writer (1828-1896)

Perhaps this also applies to all the arts, after all, what is most satifying in architecture is what is recognisable. "I could live there", I say to myself, when I see what delights me.