Quotes About Connection

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!