Quotes About Intimacy

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin.

I will always kiss you like it is our first and last kiss. Always.

I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems.

the mostbeautiful tideis the sweepof your heartagainst mine.

Her kiss dissolves the universe. In that moment, I am unmade and then reborn.

the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.

Keep your relationship private but don't hide the fact you're in one.