Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.22.

Without contemplating last and late the true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language.

-Rich, Adrienne Cecile
  The Dream of a Common Language,'Origins and History of Consciousness'.

   I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

-Sandburg, Carl
c.1940  On receiving nearly a dozen honorary doctorates for his biography of Lincoln. Quoted in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.