We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.
Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.