“Deep affections and deep sorrows seem to have solemnized my whole being, and I now feel as if bound to higher and holier tasks.”

Describing how love and suffering redirected her towards a more spiritual purpose · Late letter on art and faith, c. 1834

• Despair
• Faith
• Love

“In my opinion, there can be no real grandeur unless mind is made the ruling power, and its ascendancy asserted, even amidst the wildest storms of passion.”

Valuing intellectual and moral command above uncontrolled passion · Letter, Bronwylfa, 14 May 1823

• Art
• Truth

“O this waveless horizon — how it wearies the eye accustomed to the sweeping outline of mountain scenery!”

Revealing how deeply the Welsh mountains had shaped her sense of landscape · Letter to Mary Howitt, 11 December 1828

• Beauty
• Memory
• Nature