Books Quote by Alice Walker

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one…

— Sam Hamill

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it,…

— Saint Francis de Sales

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to…

— Helen Mirren

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that…

— Bell Hooks

“As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Intellectuals ponder, philosophize, interpret, and all this is essential to our shared experience, however, to feel the warmth of what lays at our feet…

— Mark O'Brien

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become…

— Martin Prechtel

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— N.H. Kleinbaum

“Let us feel love, in the sight of our foes. Let our hearts melt, of the sight of hungry ones. Let us sing the…

— M.Padua

“Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“To love someone means to accept the whole person. If we disagree with some of the things they do that are hurtful to others,…

— Ellen J. Barrier