“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
Source: Agnes Grey
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Anne Brontë 148
British novelist and poet 1820–1849Related quotes
"In Napa, “napalm girl” Kim Phuc shares story of suffering and forgiveness in Vietnam and beyond" in Napa Valley Register https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/in-napa-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-shares-story-of-suffering-and-forgiveness-in-vietnam-and/article_4f9225b8-0938-5509-b69b-abe13479fd4d.html (24 February 2019)
“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”
Sonnet 1,Concluding couplet from Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show
Compare: "Look, then, into thine heart and write", Henry W. Longfellow, Voices of the Night, Prelude.
Variant: Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
Source: Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Context: .... But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
Simon and Clary, pg. 321
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”
Endgame (1957)
“… my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.”
Source: The Goldfinch
“At that stage my heart ruled my head.”
concerning the 1987 coups and their aftermath The Fiji Sun http://www.sun.com.fj/