Quotes About Connection

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation

The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. ... And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

Our Story" Remind me again—together we trace our strange journey, find each other, come on laughing. Some time we'll cross where life ends. We'll both look back as far as forever, that first day. I'll touch you—a new world then. Stars will move a different way. We'll both end. We'll both begin. Remind me again.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it—I breathed it into my ears. Little

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

Father and son No sound - a spell- on, on out where the wind went, our kite sent back its thrill along the string that sagged but sang and said, "I'm here! I'm here!" - till broke somewhere, gone years ago, but sailed forever clear of earth. I hold-whatever tugs the other end-I hold that string.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

T]he conviction grew in him that the earth and the sky knew he was there and also felt friendly; so he was not really alone, and not really entirely lonely.

If it is true that there is no fear (terror) in love, it is also true that there is no love without (reverent) fear.

When Aristotle said that poetry is superior to history because history only tells us "what Alcibiades did or had done to him," he had in mind history as the mere compilation of facts. To matter, history has to do more. It has to reconnect people, in time, to what Aristotle called the "timeless forms" of nature.

Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Coinciden?ele sunt mai frecvente atunci când ne rug?m.

Once he gave her a Rothko book—an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The

But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.

Alcohol served here: because no good story ever started with a salad!" The "alcohol" fueling today's market is QE. By

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.

Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven.

És nem lehetne ez a te igazságod is? Szeretném, ha a tied lenne. Szeretném, hogy egészen megismerj. – (…) A te igazad nem lehet az enyém.

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs—in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.