Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks. Camille Paglia
Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. Anna Akhmatova
My veins are afire with music, Her eyes have kissed me, my body is turned to light; I shall dream to her secret heart tonight... Conrad Aiken
And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies. Leonard Cohen
She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart. Margaret Landon