He also loved words and writing. The museum has special proof of Porter's love of language -- his dictionary.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

Many of Frost's best-loved poems were about the years he spent with his young family on a farm in Derry,New Hampshire.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Best of all, I loved writing about the game on an old typewriter I had borrowed from someone in my father's office.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

She learned from Henrietta's friends that she loved to dance and to paint her fingernails and toenails red.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

He loved it when the church's religious leader would sing this music and drop to his knees with emotional shouts and screams.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

But he loved Jimmy Cliff's music so much that he simply added Christian lyrics.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Most people loved "An American in Paris," as they loved all of Gershwin's music.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

He also shows the main character's memories of family members and loved ones.

VOA: special.2010.12.13

He was one of America's best-loved funnymen during the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

He loved men. Some people disliked Whitman's opinions of society.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

People loved the group's teamwork and their amazing sound.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

People around the world loved Ella Fitzgerald's joyful singing.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Another employee, Haris,says he does not feel strongly about Jackson's death, although he loved listening to his music during his childhood.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

"Would they have loved to beat the Canadian team? I'm sure they would have, but it's all about being an Olympian.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

President Obama also referred to Kennedy's love of sailing, saying he has gone home to rejoin those loved ones he had lost.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Throughout the president's speech many of the survivors in attendance were overcome with grief for lost loved ones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

"That's why I'm involved." Watching a loved one fade away, Reagan says, "is a uniquely painful experience".

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Many,like a young woman who allowed her voice to be recorded in Amharic, charged her loved one's rights had been violated because prison visits by family members and attorneys had been prohibited.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

But he dealt with it." As the family huddled on stage at the end of the service, one of the singer's three children, tearfully spoke about how much she loved her father.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22