"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."

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Source : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

John Crowe Ransom

#Lying Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Great Love Quotes

“A book should be luminous not voluminous.”
“I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.”
“With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.”
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it.”
“Godâ€™s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.”
“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between â€˜I love youâ€™ and â€˜I love you too,â€™ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press
“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the ***** of New Orleans.”

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