Where does the fault lie? What the core
O' the wound; since wound must be?
Robert Browning
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man,
at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate,
alone, in direct communication with the unknown god,
which prompts him from within.
D. H. Lawrence
Man alone resists the direction of gravity: he constantly
wants to fall - upward.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence,
do I live alone.
Anton Chekhov
I am alive, alone
with a poet's heart
in the moonlight's company.
I am new in the balance
of a song, every verse I know.
The moon and I are quieted
by the falling notes. I light
a fire, I open my heart.
Susan Lacovara
All I wanted to do was try to live the life that was inside
of me, trying to get out. Why was that so hard?
Hermann Hesse
I love how you bring these quotes together in one place...and you included our very own PH Susan Lacavora's stunning quote as well. I love these musings only isolation and being alone among these great thinkers, philosophers, poets....but interestingly, they all seek connection through communication of their ideas in their written words. Even in our isolation we connect with both the spiritual and the physical.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
of the quotes, daniel, for me this is the most lovely—I am alive, alone with a poet's heart in the moonlight's company. of course you weren't aiming for lovely... the lawrence quote, cool! the nietzsche, reminds me of philippians 2: 5-11 which tells us the way up is down. -glen