With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.” — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.” — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different. — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The tender words we said to one another are stored in the secret heart of heaven; one day like rain they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for… — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
