Quotes About Communication

Usne yeh nahi kaha ke usey bhichadna hain mujhse Bas dheere-dheere baatein kam kardi

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

The clown performs mute rites, as poetry always celebrates some willfully silenced voice.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

We can't be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.

There was no feeling at all between Joan and me, so I talked about myself. I talked without stopping for two hours about myself, pulling little sounds of understanding out of poor Joan's mouth the way in prison we pulled plates of food from slots in the doors.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

We write to make sense of it all.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

How do I know what I think till I see what I say?

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Buenos dias ," she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they mustn't. (I mustn't.)

A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

By touch we are betrayed, and betray others.

Poetry is the subject of the poem.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.