Desire

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

“Fondling,” she saith, “since I have hemm’d thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain, or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”

She’s beautiful and therefore to be woo’d, She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? 5 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul; 6 see, where it flies!

Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, 1 Woods or steepy mountain yields.

Upon his shuldres wynges hadde he two; And blynd he was, as it is often seene; A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild. Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus’s child.

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk, Trembles before your glory.

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

There comes a moment in the day, when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes the hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.