“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.” — Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia “How cruel the earth, the willows shimmering, the birches bending and sighing. How cruel, how profoundly tender.” — Louise Glück, from Vita Nova “without tenderness, we are in hell.” — Adrienne Rich, from Twenty-One Love Poems, X



















