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“Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.”

Stills Desire Fall Bed Yearning Cradle Death Bed

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.”

Ifs Men May Made Lying Desire Bed Comfortable Prison Excellence Bars Iron Feathers Fetters Prowess

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

Body Eye Remember Desire Voice Bed Lays Glowing Trembling

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?”

Ifs Heart Running Desire Order Sex Hours Cry My Heart Bed Cat Tests Sensuality Torture Endurance Cried Caves Accumulation Dove Angelic Hounds Havoc Menagerie

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?”

Littles Desire Boys Bed Flesh Burning Restraint Curtains Curb

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose