Affection Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I shall quit your vessel on the ice-raft which brought me hither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall…

— Mary Shelley

“It is incomprehensible that he should want to have these futile people here, and still more incomprehensible that he should be able to sit…

— Pär Lagerkvist

“Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening…

— James Allen

“A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and for a…

— Walt Whitman

“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our rightful lord;…

— George Orwell

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has the future been so utterly…

— Fulton J. Sheen

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world;…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized way all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

O pious of the heart, I am lost in a love, so great---O pain the hidden secrets will become open debate---Shipwrecked we just float,…

— Hafez

“Epithalamium Without silence there would be no music. Life paired is doubtless more difficult than solitary existence - just as a boat on the…

— Adam Zagajewski