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“And we do want poetry for its beauty […] Yes, only for its beauty; for its moral power over us—its teaching, comforting, and elevating power all depend on its beauty.”

Jean Ingelow

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 36, p. 382.

Dependency , Beauty

“We often think we are of great importance to certain people; that they must be thinking of us and our affairs, that they watch our actions and shape their course accordingly. In general it is not so; we are quite mistaken.”

Jean Ingelow

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 12, p. 140.

People , Thinking

“Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us?”

Jean Ingelow

Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 25, p. 315.

Nature

“O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep,
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.”

Jean Ingelow

"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

Sleep , Light , Love , Night

“Our own faces, seen suddenly, will sometimes tell us things concerning ourselves that we did not suspect before.”

Jean Ingelow

Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 30, p. 560.