How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

“Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —”

— Emily Dickinson

Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…

— Robert Adams

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then…

— Paul Dano

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in…

— Heinrich Heine

“Jane!" cried he softly, moving closer. "All these long months that we have been apart, even believing it to be impossible, it is of…

— Syrie James

“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”

— Carol J. Adams

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I know what I know,” she said softly. “But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago.…

— Sara Shepard

“I love you, too," I whispered so softly I didn't know if he'd heard me. "Ti amo tanto, Sebastian, sempre e per sempre.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

Sometimes, I Smile Back To Myself, And, Speaks Softly, Hope Those Day's Would Be Back Again...

— Nikhil Andy

Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

— Anonymous

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

— Hilda Conkling

I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I know,” he said, very softly. “Let’s go home. Let’s go home, and you can tell me whatever you want, and I’ll believe you.”

— Ashlyn Kane

“My head rested on his shoulder, my heart rested entirely in his hands And in a whisper, my words escaped: "I love you." He…

— Ree Drummond