Quotes About Connection

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

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

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.