Quotes About Solitude

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul.

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

If I can't spend the rest of my life with you, I will live alone.

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

Would the mountain cherry blossoms return my affection for there is no one else out here. /????? ?????? ?? ?????? ??????

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.