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Body Quotes by Richard Siken
- Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.
- Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
- Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out…
- Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.
- The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.
- how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple…
- I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.
- You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
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- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine