Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

You have gifts to share with the world. You are not alone. You are not flawed. You are human.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” 

“I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.” 

“My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.” 

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

“The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.” 

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.”

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.