Quotes About Intimacy

You never really know someone until you have been their friend.

It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.

I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known better than one knows the look of one's own eyes, actually--and then put away, deliberately forgotten. That instantly reasserted intimacy, that resumption of what looks like friendly concern, is like nakedness, like exposure.

There is one thing above all others that I despise. It is fingers, especially female fingers, messing around in my guts. My guts, like Victorian marriage, are private.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

What I am sure of is that friendship—not love, friendship—is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia.

By touch we are betrayed, and betray others.

Next to love is the desire for love.

If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,To touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand.

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The last we saw of them was when they kissed, then beautifully naked walked as if into a sea of bright blue water --- leaving their bodies like old clothes upon the shore.

Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life's just begun I know you feel it too

Un sexo sin creatividad es demasiado animal.

proximidad afectiva.

El amor está hecho a la medida del que ama.

Si tu dolor no me duele, pues entonces estoy lejos, muy lejos de ti.

Amar es dejarte entrar en mis sueños y yo entrar a los tuyos, no necesitamos más, amar es soñar juntos

With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.