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She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems QUOTES

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems QUOTES

1 " Falling in love is a series of moments in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Those moments are not continuous, but the sense of union with another person is just about the best thing there is. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

2 " Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can’t do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

3 " She Walks in Beauty Like the Night Of Cloudless Climes and Starry Skies "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

4 " I doubt women will be surprised that men write more often about the loss of face and the loss of power, while women tend to write about the loss of self. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

5 " They’ll tell you they love you like stars in the West But along comes corn whiskey; they love it the best. Go, "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

6 " Youth OSIP MANDELSTAM Translated by W. S. Merwin Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for or what to call you I think I did not even know I was looking how would I have known you when I saw you as I did time after time when you appeared to me as you did naked offering yourself entirely at that moment and you let me breathe you touch you taste you knowing no more than I did and only when I began to think of losing you did I recognize you when you were already part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you from what we cannot hold the stars are made "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

7 " Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

8 " WE ARE ALL AFRAID of being alone. To teenagers, the idea of being alone is almost as bad as the idea of dying, which at least has a certain romantic appeal. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

9 " Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state, And all the fawning flatt’rers hate: Value your selves, and men despise, You must be proud, if you’ll be wise. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

10 " So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands. And "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

11 " And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him. And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail, That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

12 " We are constantly learning from and teaching one another. We learn, too, that the most important work is not done by those who seem the most important, but by those who care the most. Women "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

13 " A strange idea that one must say what one thinks in order to be understood. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

14 " LOVE "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

15 " Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

16 " And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

17 " Let us strike hands as hearty friends; No more, no less; and friendship’s good: Only don’t keep in view ulterior ends, And points not understood In open treaty. Rise above Quibbles and shuffling off and on: Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love,— No, thank you, John. "

― Caroline Kennedy , She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems