Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
George EliotIt was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
George EliotHere undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
George Eliot