Quotes About Connection

The story of a love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is the contract between you.

For maybe this is how poetry can be of use. Though it can't move with us, we can move it between us, pass it among us, so it is held up by our voices, so it moves with our breath, our living breath.

Home is the place where we've felt the most, I will tell him. And that can be anyplace. Or anyone. It doesn't matter how long you lived there. It's what you'll always want to come back to.

With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin. Don't let me go crazy. The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.

Loneliness is sometimes cured by visiting with people, and sometimes it's made worse by the same thing.

This is why James likes birds- because they are all possibility. They make a line in the aid, the invisible line of their flight, and this line can join up with other lines or lead somewhere entirely new. All you have to do is believe that the line exists and learn how to follow it. And sometimes life will make this same invisible line for him, make him see where he came from, what he is attached to.

All those days of walking the heath, collecting her specimens, reinforced in her a need to look to the natural world for her own location. Now, even in London, she is constantly searching out the trees and grass, the flowers, to determine her position in the urban landscape. She looks to the natural world to guide her in how she moves through the city, in how she thinks about her own life.

I can feel the heat blossoms on your skin.

The stars wire the sky together and the crickets fill the shadows of the earth with their breath.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free!

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

His mother was standing before him,

I am glad I have caught up with you,

met him the day after,

James and Joseph held each other by the hand

To me, relationship is sacred because the spirit of God is manifest in empathic connection.