Nurse

“She’s loose! She’ll tear the roof off!”
—Mark Hanna. Nathan Hertz. Nurse (Eileen Stevens)

“Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The intellectual damn
Will nurse your half-hurt. Quickly you are well.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)