“She is a living fire, such as I have never seen; (…)”
— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena
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“I’m much happier in bed. Staying in bed suits me. I’d be very unhappy to get out of bed and go out and meet strangers and all that kind of thing. I’d really much prefer to stay in my bed.”
— Harold Pinter, from Complete Shorter Plays of Harold Pinter; “Moonlight,”
“Go with me where my thoughts would go;”
— Emily Brontë, from Poems; “Why Ask to Know What Date, What Clime,”
“Winter. Frozen pulse and heart of fire,”
— Helen Hunt Jackson, from The Complete Poems; “A Calendar of Sonnets,”
“In her soul stood petrified forests of memories.”
— Agnes Miegel, tr. by Vladimir Rus, from “The Beggar,” wr. c. October 1921
“Witch-like. Dramatic. Intense. Magnetically attractive.”
—
Marian Seldes, referring to Anne Sexton in “Anne Sexton: A Biography,”