tenderness quotes

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet†they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.8,'Of Marriage and the Single Life'.

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

-John Dryden
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

No te juzgues incompleto porque no responden a tus ternuras; el amor lleva en s | su propia plenitud. Siempre que haya un hueco en tu vida, lle  nalo de amor. Don't judge yourself incomplete when your tenderness gets no response; love carries within itself its own plenitude. Whenever there is a void in your life, fill it with love.

-Nervo
  Plenitud,'Lle  nalo de amor' (translated as'Fill It with love', 1928).

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

-Wilfred Owen
  'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.

Anger and tenderness: my selves. And now I can believe they breathe in me as angels, not polarities.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
AWild Patience HasTaken MeThis Far,'Integrity'.

Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

-William Wordsworth
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza11 (published1807).