Jin mentioned her and reminded me of her work.
"And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime." - Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night "Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development." "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." "She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse." (Have His Carcase) "Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again." |
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sayers/opi/dls-opi.html
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8734.Dorothy_L_Sayers
Various poems inspired by famous people:
http://allpoetry.com/list/32270-Inspired-by-Famous-People
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