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who do it best cannot tell how it is done. J M Barrie  is to like someone enormously. Helen Gurley Brown (attrib.) passion one feels than in the passion one arouses in another. Duc De La Rochefoucauld in the happiness of another. G W Von Leibnitz Honore De Balzac - The Physiology of Marriage F Scott Fitzgerald - The Crack-Up caressing her. A compliment is like kissing her through a veil. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Not as a river willingly downward falls To be lost in a wide ocean. But come to me As flood-time comes to shore-line Filling empty bays With a white stillness Mating earth and sea. Anne Wilkinson - In, June and Gentle Oven What spring does With the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Mrs Patrick Campbell Richard Garnett - De Flagello Myrteo, LIX Publilius Syrus - Sententiae Antonio Machado - Juan de Mairena William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees. John Keats - The Eve of St Agnes It is like the sun piercing the clouds … August Rodin - in, Robert Melville, Erotic Art of the West Nudging his sheila in the ribs, he says: "You awake?" or, "Brace yourself, Raelene." or, "Make yer a cuppa after?" Source unknown as though tuning a radio. Lisa Aither He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. Erica Jong - How To Save Your Own Life Shere Hite - The Hite Report Thomas 'Fats' Waller - Title of song gracefully, daintily, and above all sweetly. John Barth - Letters Before, behind, between, above, below. John Donne - To His Mistress Going to Bed That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart and not the brain That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Calls you to explore the land, And her breasts, those mountains fair, Tempt that mountaineer, your hand - Stop! before it is too late: Love, the brigand, lies in wait. Bhartrhari (5th Century) Trans. John Brough Who said to her lover, "Oh, please! It would heighten my bliss if you'd do more with this and pay less attention to these." Garrison Keillor - Radio Romance fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh … e e cummings - i like my body when it is with your body Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. William Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis The tumult of the blood, the frenzied gusts of pleasure, Those groans of hers, those shrieks: a young Bacchante's cries, When writhing like a snake in my embrace she lies, And wounding kiss and touch, urgent and hot, engender The final shudderings that consummate surrender. How sweeter far are you, my meek, my quiet one, By what tormenting bliss is my whole soul undone When, after I have long and eagerly been pleading, With bashful graciousness to my deep need conceding, You give yourself to me, but shyly, turned away, To all my ardours cold, scarce heeding what I say, Responding, growing warm, oh, in how slow a fashion, To share, unwilling, yet to share at last my passion! Alexander Pushkin - No, Never Think. Trans - Babette Deutsch Henry Fielding - Jonathan Wilde And diving deep, pierced to the quick. Thomas Nashe - The Merrie Ballad of Nashe Voice from the back: "Sixty five!" Lecturer: "There are sixty known different ways…" Same voice again: "Sixty five!" Lecturer: "Despite the gentleman at the back, there are sixty different ways known to the medical profession, the first of which being man on top of woman". Voice from the back: "Sixty six". only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis - On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue Then straightens out from heel to hip. T S Eliot - Sweeney Erect don't stop said she oh no said he go slow said she. e e cummings - may i feel said he Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat. Paul Valery goes sure and also far. He that spurs on too fast at first setting out, tires before he comes to his journey's end. John Ray - English Proverbs Within my mouth, and to my thoughts convey'd Swift orders, that I should prepare to throw The all-dissolving thunderbolt below. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - The Imperfect Enjoyment William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra "It's hard to say." "If you imagine it as a journey from here to China, where would you be?" "The kitchen." doctor told me it was the wrong kind. Woody Allen - from the film, Manhattan While the geranium tree was planting, 'Til in the heat of amorous strife She burst the mellow tree of life. "Oh, heaven!" cried Susan with a sigh, "The hour we taste-we surely die. Strange raptures seize my fainting frame, And all my body glows with flame. Yet let me snatch one parting kiss To tell my love I die with bliss - That pleased, thy Susan yields her breath, Oh, who would live, if this be death?" Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Burroughs - The Ticket that Exploded Slowly a gem forms, in the ancient, once-more-molten rocks Of two human hearts, two ancient rocks, a man's heart and a woman's, That is the crystal of peace, the slow hard jewel of trust, The sapphire of fidelity. The gem of mutual peace emerging from the wild chaos of love. The garden is snow-bound, The branches weighed down and the paths filled in, Drifts quilt the ground. We lie soft-caught, still now it's done, Loose-twined across the bed Like wrestling statues; but it still goes on Inside my head. Thom Gunn length of our bodies, the familiar touch of the long-married. Galway Kinnell - After Making Love We Hear Footsteps we make love that are most mysterious to me, uncanny. Joyce Carol Oates - The Wheel of Love and other Stories: 'Unmailed, Unwritten Letters' grow numb rather than wake a sleeping head cushioned there. Malcolm Muggeridge - Chronicles of Wasted Time Galen is true for me only if I fail to delight her. Otherwise, I can crow. ridiculous, and the expense damnable. John Wilmot, Earl of Chesterfield Lillie Langtry: "And you've spent enough in me to float one."
Charlie Chaplin else, the bulk of love-making would not be done at night. Source unknown - Meditations in Wall Street   manpower@rediffmail.com |
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