From an essay she published at twenty-two, after Radcliffe. The softer line about the best things being felt with the heart is a paraphrase that wandered. This sentence has a date. Keller was a socialist, a suffragist, and a public opponent of war, facts the inspiration industry tends to leave off. The overcoming in the sentence is not private grit only. She meant institutions, teaching, and politics. Anne Sullivan had spelled water into her hand. She spent the rest of her life spelling the world back.