Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?
George EliotIt is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
George EliotTo be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
George Eliot