Quotes About Connection

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Social man is not a being secure in the given nexus of familial, ritual, and political ties that hold his life together but rather a being continually engaged in creating that nexus.

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

On this Very Street in Belgrade" Your mother carried you Out of the smoking ruins of a building And set you down on this sidewalk Like a doll bundled in burnt rags, Where you now stood years later Talking to a homeless dog, Half-hidden behind a parked car, His eyes brimming with hope As he inched forward, ready for the worst.

I like the silence between us, The quiet–that holy state even the rain Knows about. Listen to her begin to fall, As if with eyes closed, Muting each drop in her wild-beating heart. — Charles Simic, closing lines to "This Morning," A Wedding in Hell (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994)

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to a person who isn't.

You always have God's undivided attention.

I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs

the dark side of individualism is a centering on the self, which both flattens and narrows our lives, makes them poorer in meaning, and less concerned with others or society.

Sometimes you see briefly into someone's heart, and it becomes a bond between you that goes beyond friendship.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it—which comes to the same thing—is by writing in it.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

She says that telling a love story is something one person does. Being in love takes both of them. Putting her on a pedestal is just a different way of being alone.