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Arnold Adoff (July 16, 1935, in Bronx, New York – May 7, 2021, in Yellow Springs, Ohio) was an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He has said, "I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words.
Booklist, in a review of In for Winter, Out for Spring, wrote "Adoff has worked with many fine illustrators, but never has his poetry been more radiantly expressed than in Pinkney's watercolor and colored-pencil art. ... The poetry is formatted in eye-catching designs that encourage effective reading, whether by adults or by middle-graders who ...
The work is in ternary form, with the music of the opening returning at the end, with Fand's love-song in between. The opening is a shimmering theme played by woodwind, two harps and divided upper strings, with the lower strings playing a rising and falling theme illustrative of the swell of the sea.
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” — John Ruskin “The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.”
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A. A. Milne
Empedocles on Etna is a dramatic poem or closet drama in two acts written by the Victorian poet-critic Matthew Arnold and first published, anonymously, in 1852. [1] [2] The poem describes the philosophic contemplations and suicidal ravings of the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles (c. 494 – c. 434 BC) and his legendary death in the fires of Mount Etna on Sicily.
The line has become one of the most recognizable quotes from the franchise. But the 75-year-old actor recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he was not convinced the line would work.
November Woods is a tone poem by Arnold Bax, written in 1917.Ostensibly a musical depiction of nature, the work conveys something of the composer's turbulent emotional state arising from the disintegration of his marriage and his love affair with the pianist Harriet Cohen.