Quotes About Desire

Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.

Oh do not die, for I shall hateAll women so, when thou art gone.

Duplicated: Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; ... (Repeated twice)

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.

The day breaks not: it is my heart.

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.

Stay, O sweet, and do not rise; The light that shines comes from thine eyes; The day breaks not, it is my heart, Because that you and I must part.

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name

GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR.

Hee that hath all can have no more

Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them?

MARK but this flea

When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind, But sigh'st my soul away; When thou weep'st, unkindly kind, My life's blood doth decay. It cannot be That thou lov'st me, as thou say'st, If in thine my life thou waste

I need thy thunder, O my God; thy music will not serve me.

gustatory avidity.

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts...

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

What all your sex desire is Sovereignty

Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.

For present joys are more to flesh and bloodThan a dull prospect of a distant good.