There is times where what you want to say, exactly that, nothing else, has been already said or written by someone that at some point thought like you. In those cases is handy to use “quotation marks”

“An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.
A whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.
My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.
These letters are a ladder to you”
Gregory Colbert
http://www.ashesandsnow.org