'Reading in bed last night...of Emily Bronte, was struck by Emily's knowledge of passion without apparently having experienced it. I think after all that those who have never experienced passionate love can very easily imagine it, and having read deeply can know it even better than from actual experience. After all the desires are there, and because not realized become no less poignant, rather more so. It is unfulfilled love that intensifies passion.'
James Lees-Milne, A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953-1972, p.187.
