Quotes About Connection

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

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

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.