She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write... - Thomas Hardy

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness,

Ah," she said to herself, "want of an object to live for—that's all is the matter with me!

I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies…