Spring has sprung!
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chelidonSome juicy Springtime quotes for you:
He put his hand in her hand.
He put his hand to her heart.
Sweet is the sleep of hand-to-hand.
Sweeter still the sleep of heart-to-heart.
--The Courtship of Inanna and Demuzi, ~2000 B.C.
"Whenever the cat of the house is black,
Its lasses of lovers will have no lack."
--Mother Goose rhyme
"Butterfly of sudden delight rest up you tonight." -- Mysterious Fortune Cookie
"...for mental creation too arises from the physical, is of one nature with it and only like a softer, more enraptured and more eternal repetition of bodily delight. 'The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping' is nothing without its continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals--and our enjoyment of it is so indescribably beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions."
"In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable."
--Rilke
"In respect to the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.
-- Judge M. Woolsey writing on the "obscenity" in Ulysses, 1933
-- Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the opposite of that that is really life.
-- What? Says Alf.
-- Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
"love is the voice
under all silences,
the hope which has
no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong
mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first
than sun more last
than star..."
-- e.e. cummings
What part of the word "YES" don't you understand?
--Anonymous
Pervert the dominant paradigm
--Anonymous
"Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge. And it is not our acceptance of it that is bad; what is bad is that most people misuse this learning and squander it and apply it as a stimulant on the tired places of their lives and as a distraction rather than as a way of gathering themselves for their highest moments."
--Rilke
"Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained"
-- William Blake
I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"They say that blood is thicker than water. I say leather is thicker than blood, and it's certainly thicker than my Kinsey number"
-- Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
I'm a bisexual, polyamorous pervert and I STILL won't fuck you"
--Anonymous
"The only unnattural sex act is one you cannot perform."
--Alfred Kinsey
". . .and when I looked up at the ceiling over her bed, I found myself staring into the horror-filled eyes of a battalion of naked women being plunged into some unspeakable destination in a chariot drawn by rabid wolves with fangs dripping blood. It's the last thing Grace Slick sees before she goes to bed at night. "
--Rex Reed
"Out in the wild, blood thrumming through me
arms wide open, to welcome the sun
A run from those spaces enclosed in cold shadow
A deep, green desiring that summons me on!
Love blue with promise, the sky opens to me
Scent of sweet roses infuses the air!
Madness is rooted in the growing of flowers
Order is sundered by beauty's wild push!"
-- T. Thorn Coyle, "The Green" (from album, "Face of a New Day")
"Innocent, Wild, Black, Free!
Oh, pulse, entering into me.
Innocent, Wild, Black, Free!
All life, earth beating through me!
Blue, blue, the heart of the flame
Blue, blue, ancestors calling me.
Orange, red, the heat of desire,
Oh life, She is kissing me!
Dark, dark, the earth it pumps into me
Dark, dark, ancestors singing.
Deep, deep, surrendering up to power,
Oh life, She is kissing me!
come to me now, lover and mystery
come to me now, kiss me all over
come to me now, desire spilling into me
Truth, life, sensual beauty."
-- T. Thorn Coyle, "Black Heart," from the album, "Face of a New Day"
SUMMUM BONUM
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem:
In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea:
Breath and bloom, shade and shine, -- wonder, wealth, and --
how far above them --
Truth, that's brighter than gem,
Trust, that's purer than pearl, --
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe --
all were for me
In the kiss of one girl.
--by Robert Browning
"Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well!"
--Liber AL vel Legis
"Sex and hunger are the raw stuff of art, and out of his passion and fury
and despair the artist transmutes the shapes of terror and wonder into an
eternal beauty."
--Jack Parsons; iv. "the sword and the spirit"
"I'm not kinky or anything -- I don't tie myself up first, I just kinda...
'spend some time" with myself."
--Tom Waits
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
--Mae West (1892-1980)
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain
tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it
took to blossom." --Anaïs Nin
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. (Now is the time to drink, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.)
--Horace
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing. It cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
--Sir Hugh Walpoe
"Driven by the force of love the fragments of the world seek each other that the world may come into being."
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
He put his hand in her hand.
He put his hand to her heart.
Sweet is the sleep of hand-to-hand.
Sweeter still the sleep of heart-to-heart.
--The Courtship of Inanna and Demuzi, ~2000 B.C.
"Whenever the cat of the house is black,
Its lasses of lovers will have no lack."
--Mother Goose rhyme
"Butterfly of sudden delight rest up you tonight." -- Mysterious Fortune Cookie
"...for mental creation too arises from the physical, is of one nature with it and only like a softer, more enraptured and more eternal repetition of bodily delight. 'The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping' is nothing without its continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals--and our enjoyment of it is so indescribably beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions."
"In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable."
--Rilke
"In respect to the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of his characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.
-- Judge M. Woolsey writing on the "obscenity" in Ulysses, 1933
-- Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the opposite of that that is really life.
-- What? Says Alf.
-- Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.
--James Joyce, _Ulysses_
"love is the voice
under all silences,
the hope which has
no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong
mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first
than sun more last
than star..."
-- e.e. cummings
What part of the word "YES" don't you understand?
--Anonymous
Pervert the dominant paradigm
--Anonymous
"Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge. And it is not our acceptance of it that is bad; what is bad is that most people misuse this learning and squander it and apply it as a stimulant on the tired places of their lives and as a distraction rather than as a way of gathering themselves for their highest moments."
--Rilke
"Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained"
-- William Blake
I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"They say that blood is thicker than water. I say leather is thicker than blood, and it's certainly thicker than my Kinsey number"
-- Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
I'm a bisexual, polyamorous pervert and I STILL won't fuck you"
--Anonymous
"The only unnattural sex act is one you cannot perform."
--Alfred Kinsey
". . .and when I looked up at the ceiling over her bed, I found myself staring into the horror-filled eyes of a battalion of naked women being plunged into some unspeakable destination in a chariot drawn by rabid wolves with fangs dripping blood. It's the last thing Grace Slick sees before she goes to bed at night. "
--Rex Reed
"Out in the wild, blood thrumming through me
arms wide open, to welcome the sun
A run from those spaces enclosed in cold shadow
A deep, green desiring that summons me on!
Love blue with promise, the sky opens to me
Scent of sweet roses infuses the air!
Madness is rooted in the growing of flowers
Order is sundered by beauty's wild push!"
-- T. Thorn Coyle, "The Green" (from album, "Face of a New Day")
"Innocent, Wild, Black, Free!
Oh, pulse, entering into me.
Innocent, Wild, Black, Free!
All life, earth beating through me!
Blue, blue, the heart of the flame
Blue, blue, ancestors calling me.
Orange, red, the heat of desire,
Oh life, She is kissing me!
Dark, dark, the earth it pumps into me
Dark, dark, ancestors singing.
Deep, deep, surrendering up to power,
Oh life, She is kissing me!
come to me now, lover and mystery
come to me now, kiss me all over
come to me now, desire spilling into me
Truth, life, sensual beauty."
-- T. Thorn Coyle, "Black Heart," from the album, "Face of a New Day"
SUMMUM BONUM
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem:
In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea:
Breath and bloom, shade and shine, -- wonder, wealth, and --
how far above them --
Truth, that's brighter than gem,
Trust, that's purer than pearl, --
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe --
all were for me
In the kiss of one girl.
--by Robert Browning
"Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well!"
--Liber AL vel Legis
"Sex and hunger are the raw stuff of art, and out of his passion and fury
and despair the artist transmutes the shapes of terror and wonder into an
eternal beauty."
--Jack Parsons; iv. "the sword and the spirit"
"I'm not kinky or anything -- I don't tie myself up first, I just kinda...
'spend some time" with myself."
--Tom Waits
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
--Mae West (1892-1980)
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain
tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it
took to blossom." --Anaïs Nin
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus. (Now is the time to drink, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.)
--Horace
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing. It cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident."
--Sir Hugh Walpoe
"Driven by the force of love the fragments of the world seek each other that the world may come into being."
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
