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Bodily Quotes by Robert Pinsky
- Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
- The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.…
More Bodily Quotes
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner
- The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place,… — Henry M. Morris
- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet… — William Butler Yeats
- It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you… — Paramahansa Yogananda
- At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori