Body Quote by John Dryden

A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;…

— John Dryden

“oy is held in the seed of agony, for what was closed in the winds of grief, now opens as a flower. The bud…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as…

— Anonymous

“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The shape of…

— Stanley Kunitz

“Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest…

— Mary Oliver

“The torments of his mind and the severe penance he had observed, had produced a surprising change in his appearance, so that he resembled…

— Ann Radcliffe

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of…

— Plutarch

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with measured steps,…

— Joseph Conrad

“He wandered aimlessly. The sun was setting. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Plume" Transfixed to the, by the, on the congruities, who is herself a vanishing point coming to closure — dusky flutter — trilling away…

— Aaron Shurin

“She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had…

— Joseph Conrad