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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh
Love, Loneliness, Artist
Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.