Quotes About Connection

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

I believe that poetry should communicate.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

'Must Feed and Water' is a love story told from the point of view of 'Love' as a character.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.