Poignancy – Quotes

There is nothing like

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. Elizabeth Gaskell

Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar. Elizabeth Berg

To all that he

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy. Frederick Delius

There\’s no beauty without

There’s no beauty without poignancy and there’s no poignancy without the feeling that it’s going, men, names, books, houses–bound for dust–mortal– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty in a woman

Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke! Donald Evans

I find poignancy in

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization. Dana Spiotta

It was the last

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. … Read more

But grace can be

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. Anne Lamott

Philip Galanes has fashioned

Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man’s struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator’s many betrayals of others … Read more

The poignancy of a

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred Allen Ginsberg