Quotes about Connection

We're all in this together ... alone.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one's bones.

We can only know and understand ourselves fully through others — through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away.

One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.

So what is it, he thought, that binds me to this spot of earth as if to a home I cannot leave? We must all leave home, after all, we must all leave our mothers. Or am I such a child, such a child from such a line of children, that none of us can leave, but have to come back to die here with our heads upon our mothers' laps, I upon hers, she upon her mother's, and so back and back, generation upon generation?

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.