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Quotes About Intimacy

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes, But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There's not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight.
~ W.B. Yeats
I kiss you and the world begins to fade. – W. B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire (? Jennings Press, August 25, 2008) Originally published 1894.
~ W.B. Yeats
O hiding hair and dewy eyes, I am no more with life and death, My heart upon his warm heart lies, My breath is mixed into his breath.
~ W.B. Yeats
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm;
~ W.H. Auden
Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
~ W.H. Auden
He presses my hand and he says he loves me, Which I find an admirable peculiarity.
~ W.H. Auden
If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.
~ W.H. Auden
Our whisper woke no clocks, We kissed and I was glad At everything you did, Indifferent to those Who sat with hostile eyes In pairs on every bed, Arms round each other's neck, Inert and vaguely sad.
~ W.H. Auden
Lovers running each to each Feel such timid dreams catch fire Blazing as they touch, Learn what love alone can teach: Happy on a tousled bed Praise Blake's acumen who said: 'One thing only we require Of each other; we must see In another's lineaments Gratified desire'; That is our humanity; Nothing else contents.
~ W.H. Auden
I turned to the room and in the light from the street beheld one beautiful bare breast of a friend's friend gently rising and falling as though I were not there already not there
~ W.S. Merwin
Please one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off
~ W.S. Merwin
He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!
~ Natsuki Takaya
On and off the field, you're my hardest fall, Zoe. No one ever compared. No one ever will.
~ Unknown
Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
~ John Cleese
Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
~ Satyajit Ray
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
~ Rollo May
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
~ Emmet Gowin
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
~ Francis Chan
Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.
~ Robert Creeley
There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.
~ David Porush
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
~ Stephen Covey
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.
~ Nina Hartley