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“My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.”

Soul Body Seems Desire Horse Mere Wagons

Author:Robert E. Howard

“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.”

Humans Body America Beautiful Desire Artist Animal Powerful Air Performances Horse Difficulty Musical Narrative Fulfillment Latin Latin America Suspended Debut Underwater Humans And Animals

Author:Mark Doty

“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”

Life Made Life Is Desire Known Daughter Horse Pessimism Quantum Symptoms Vary Syndromes Leeches

Book:Murphy

Source: Murphy

“...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Men Way Might Young Desire Fashion Fine Horse Majority Luxury France Young Man Fashionable

Book:Love

Source: Love

“Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.”

“I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning.”

People Want Needs Long Eye Desire Behinds Morning Return Shadow Horse Guitar Folks Fifty Bees Meadows Berries Swarms Lateness

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”

Men Firsts Young Desire Enemy Hair Proud India Horse Wave Strikes Flying Perceive Young Man Rising Riders Advancing Spurs Spears Fling Arches Pavement Unyielding

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.”

Trying Wells Two Different Might Moving Desire Force Conflict Equal Horse Contradictory Opposing Moving In Different Directions

Book:Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential

Source: Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential

“A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.”

Men Firsts Heart Matter Spiritual Desire Heaven Knowledge Eternal Eternity Horse Affair Come Up Possession Soil Farms Anchors Knowledge Of God

Author:Jedediah M. Grant

“I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold”

Ends Desire Horse Threshold

Book:Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems

Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems

“He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.”

Men Mind Art Soul Lying Desire Heaven Christ Poor He Man Horse Flesh Dull Pace Stakes Judged Kicking Jade

Author:John Bunyan