The ache to utter and see in word The silhouette of a brooding soul.

-Sandburg, Carl
  Describing the poet's motivation. In Reckless Ecstasy.

The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.

-Time
  Of Winston Churchill disembarking from the Queen Mary. 14 Jan.