Quotes About Empathy

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics.

I talk to myself, not because I'm lonely, but because sometimes I'm the only one who understands what I'm saying.

I love you all - if you are not people!

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Be with those who help your being.

There is such a shelter in each other.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.