“There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.”
Act II
Buchanan Dying (1974)
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“Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.”
I. 3. lines 39-40
The Bard (1757)
“To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 253.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 101.
“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
Source: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.”
Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman (1949)
“My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”
La Gitanilla (The Little Gypsy) (c. 1590–1612; published 1613)