Quotes About Isolation

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

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

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

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.

30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

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.

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

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.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

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

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.