Quotes About Connection

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

You said: There's a lot of places out there, friend, so you would go, smuggling a suitcase of words across every border carved by the heel of mapmakers or conquerors, because you had an all-night conversation with the world, hearing the beat of unsung poems in every voice, visiting the haunted rooms in every face. Drive, you said, because poets must bring the news to the next town: You got a song, man, sing it. You got a bell, man, ring it.

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

tal vez, las cosas que nos mueven a hablar son las únicas cosas sobre las que merece la pena escribir.

Mirar, escuchar: ponerse en modo esponja. Nunca deja de maravillarme el privilegio de que personas me cuenten sus historias, sus vidas; nunca deja de sorprenderme la cantidad de cosas que tantas personas pueden contarte si te ven dispuesto a escucharlas.

Lo irreal no es lo opuesto a lo real, sino su lenguaje. Lo banal no es lo contrario de lo profundo, sino su fracaso. Lo trágico no es el reverso de lo cómico, sino su vecino. Lo antiguo no es la negación de lo nuevo, sino su futuro.

Ebenezer Snell] never got over the idea that although people who loved each other might be apart, they could gaze up at the sky and see the same stars and the same moon. The scientist in him understood the phenomenon, but the poet in him appreciated the wonder.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

Play teaches people to be capable of living with others without control; it connects the experiences of vulnerability and surprise to curiosity and wonder, rather than to crippling anxiety. How

You should care about things in a way that makes it a possibility that tragedy will happen to you.

You never know when family won't be around anymore, you know?

I think I thought I could I can but not without you.

You can remember when you look at them." "Remember?" "Aurelia," he says. "To speak the name is to make live again.

One man gave her water from his skin pouch, which carried with it a faint taste of animal

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.

Having a relationship with God isn't about doing the right thing, it's about loving him and learning to really understand how much he loves you

Even if you feel like you have lost Him, Gavi, He hasn't lost you.