
As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist".
After recollecting her father's death to People magazine (1999) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051600075.html
1990s
As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist".
“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Crazy Love
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
Part I, section xxii, stanza 11
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
“Gods, how I’ve missed you. (Stryker)
I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)”
Source: One Silent Night
In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away
Context: Now I know surely and forever,
However much I have blotted our
Waking love, its memory is still
there. And I know the web, the net,
The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
One brief instant it was not blind, nor
Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
I who am lost and damned with words,
Whose words are a business and an art,
I have no words. These words, this poem, this
Is all confusion and ignorance.
But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
My heart beat one free beat and sent
Through all my flesh the blood of truth.
Bk. II, l. 785-790.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)