The lower one's vitality, the more
sensitive one is to great art.
?Max Beerbohm
The finest qualities of our nature, like the
bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the
most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat
ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
?Henry David Thoreau
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
?Edgar Allan Poe
A light, tender, sensitive touch
is worth a ton of brawn.
?Peter Thomson
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an
expression of the feeling of inferiority.
?Alfred Adler
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people,
and in my observation one of the things
they are most sensitive about is money.
?Robert Penn Warren
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by
being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
?Arthur Rimbaud
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
?Henry David Thoreau