Flesh Quotes - Page 29

• Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
  Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

  William Blake

  Boys, Desire, Bed

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.120, Pearson Education

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• You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Men, Orchids

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Tea, Mind

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• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod,
  Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:
  'The nakedness of woman is the work of God',
  Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  Allen Tate

  Heaven, Titles, Hell

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.192, Macmillan

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• the heart,
  this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
  this ultimate signature of the me, the start
  of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Heart, Sleep

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

  Rebecca West

  Sight, Ties, Understanding

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• And from the first declension of the flesh
  I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
  Into the stony idiom of the brain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• ... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
  The word of the blood, the wily skin,
  And the maggot no man can slay.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Men, Blood

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

  Umberto Eco

  Laughter, Weakness, Corruption

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Blood, History, Body

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• The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Change, Time

  "Jacques the Fatalist". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• Everything from toy guns that spark
  To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
  It's easy to see without looking too far
  That not much is really sacred.

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Gun, Sacred

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
  The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fall, Light, World

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.164, Anchor

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• The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
  and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
  water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
  uncounted into the supple arms of love.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Blood, Color, Fire

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
  Who came sure from a sea of light?
  Or since those drops are all sent back
  So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
  Why should frail flesh doubt any more
  That what God takes, He'll not restore?

  Henry Vaughan

  Fear, Night, Light

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.266

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• In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Pride, Holiness, Spirit

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• Long live the new flesh.

  David Cronenberg

  Life, Long, Body

  "Fictional character: Max Renn". "Videodrome", 1983.

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• Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Fun, Heart, Body

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• Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
  Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones;
  Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss,
  The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Lying, Kissing, Great Love

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell?
  Or take your bodies honorless to Hell?
  
  In Heaven you have heard no marriage is,
  No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

  John Crowe Ransom

  White, Heaven, Body

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Book, Men, Talking

  Marvin Mudrick (1979). “Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.

  Amy Poehler

  Lonely, Reading, Blood

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• Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

  Albert Pike

  Bravery, Temptation, Enemy

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Errors, Imagination

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Angel, Energy, Made

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