“Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Source: The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems
“There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.”
Source: Holy the Firm (1977)
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