"Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist."

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Source : Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

Anne Stevenson

#Silence Quotes #Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes

“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
“Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.”
“If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.”
“A thunder-storm!â€”the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around him thrown? With what a gloom the ushâ€™ring scene appears! The leaves all shivâ€™ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A veiling fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rainâ€™s reluctant shower, With big drops pattâ€™ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform,â€” All mark the coming of the thunder-storm!”
“There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.”
“It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.”
“Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.”
“It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.”

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