Quotes About Connection

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

The union of a want and a sentiment.

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

I know many lives worth living.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Poems are difficult to silence.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

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.