Jack Gilbert Quotes

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

You're my existence. I'm yours

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

You are the land. The land is you.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

Love is to be two and at the same time one.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.