“I am a queen alone in the parlor still, eating the bread and honey.”
— Anne Sexton, from Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; “Division of Parts,”
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“All things had turned to ghosts;”
— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Night and Day,” c. October 1919
“I need to be silent for a while. Worlds are forming in my heart.”
— Meister Eckhart, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky, from “Expands His Being,”
“I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “True Encounter,”