a man for others”; he was one with them. There is a world of difference in that.

What could my mother beto yours? What kin is my fatherto yours anyway? And howdid you and I meet ever?But in loveour hearts have mingledlike red earth and pouring rain.

Languages are not strangers to on another.

It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.

There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

You want me to lie for you?” Aidan asked, watching them. “Believe in me, the way you did in my mama.” Aidan wheezed and sputtered. What did she know ’bout him and Miz Garnett? “Please.”...

Look past our kinship, and towards a romantic relationship!

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break...

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say...

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column…However, out fates at...

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with...

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

No daylight to separate us.Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one...