“I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?”
"Waterlily Fire" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54593, IV: 'Fragile', in Waterlily Fire: Poems 1935-1962 (1962), and in Out of Silence: Selected Poems, ed. Kate Daniels (1994), p. 120
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poet and political activist 1913–1980Related quotes
“Don’t speak to me. I want to be with you.”
Voces (1943)
“When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.”
Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a ti.
Voces (1943)

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”
"The Decline of Academic Freedom at Dartmouth College", 20 October 2005.
Letter published in "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth", 2005

“I swear, there is in me no wizardry of word.
I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”
Przysięgam, nie ma we mnie czarodziejstwa słów.
Mówię do ciebie milcząc, jak obłok czy drzewo.
"Dedication" (1945); quoted in Conversant Essays : Contemporary Poets on Poetry (1990) edited by James McCorkle, p. 69

“And, Bianca, come with me. I would like to speak with you."
"What about me?" Nico asked.”
Source: The Titan's Curse