Body

Paddling palms and pinching fingers.

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

Fie, fie upon her! There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.

In the porches of mine ears.

My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve.

Speak, hands, for me!

I understand thy kisses and thou mine, And that’s a feeling disputation.

Look, how my ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

Could I come near your beauty with my nails I’d set my ten commandments in your face.

Whan she cast of hir smok.

But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth. Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

For nakid as a worm was she.

As round as appil was his face.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation .

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.