A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
I'm a really good person. I'm down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I'm just like everybody else.
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
