“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-she had reached that point.”

“How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.”

“She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”