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Lines from literature that make you go ooofft!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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How people can encapsulate a world of emotion in a line or two, I am wondrously and endlessly enchanted by.
Share some of the lines that stir you; I want reason to float and feel and dream. 
I’ll start off with:
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees” ~ Pablo Neruda
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." ~ JD Salinger, "A Girl I Knew" |
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Cannon to the right of them
Cannon to the left of them
Cannon to the front of them
Volleyed an thunder
Stormed at with shot and shell
Boldly they rode and well
Into the jaws of death
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How beautiful the sunsets these sultry days,
deep space so profound, beyond life’s brief floods ...
then, when I kissed you, my queen, in a daze,
I thought I breathed the bouquet of your blood
as beautiful as sunsets these sultry days
- Charles Baudelaire |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“The only sea I saw
Was the seesaw sea
With you riding on it.
Lie down, lie easy.
Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”
~ Dylan Thomas, “Under Milk Wood”
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he didn’t know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.
Virginia Woolf x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bury my heart at wounded Knee
"Let me be a free man,free to travel,free to stop,free to work,free to trade where I wish,free to choose my own teachers,free to follow the religion of my father's,free to think and talk and act for myself, And I will obey to every law or submit to the penalty"
Chief Joseph ..Nez Perce
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How beautiful the sunsets these sultry days,
deep space so profound, beyond life’s brief floods ...
then, when I kissed you, my queen, in a daze,
I thought I breathed the bouquet of your blood
as beautiful as sunsets these sultry days
- Charles Baudelaire"
Mmmm the French symbolists... Drool |
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body will I give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all.
CP Cavafy |
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
Sunderland |
And another from Cavafy - both the memories of the best times but also the desires so close but not fulfilled...
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds on which you lay,
but also those desires for you
that glowed plainly in the eyes,
and trembled in the voice—and some
chance obstacle made futile. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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""Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.”
Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)"
Oh! I’ve never heard that one. Oh! |
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Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
They fell on this, the three bodies in accord, moving against each other to feel breast against breast and belly against belly. They ceased to be three bodies. They became all mouths and fingers and tongues and senses. Their mouths sought another mouth, a nipple, a clitoris. They lay entangled, moving very slowly. They kissed until the kissing became a torture and the body grew restless. Their hands always found yielding flesh, an opening. The fur they lay on gave off an animal odor, which mingled with the odors of sex...They tried to come in unison, but Elena came first, falling in a heap, detached from Leila's hand, struck down by the violence of her orgasm, Leila fell beside her, offering her sex to Elena's mouth. As Elena's pleasure grew fainter, rolling away, dying off, she gave Leila her tongue, flicking in the sex's mouth until Leila contracted and moaned. She bit into Leila's tender flesh. In the paroxysm of her pleasure, Leila did not feel the teeth buried there."
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Couple of pieces of eighteenth century cynicism.
Gibbon on the variety of religion in the Roman Empire
"to the populace the religions were equally true, to the philosopher equally false and to the magistrate equally useful"
Voltaire on the shooting of Admiral Byng
"the English like to shoot an admiral every now and then pour encourager les autres" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam |
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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago
the right frame of mind -London |
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Bob Dylan (Just like a woman)
- and before you criticise me for posting song lyrics, remember he won the Nobel Prize for literature  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Bob Dylan (Just like a woman)
- and before you criticise me for posting song lyrics, remember he won the Nobel Prize for literature "
No criticism here. I adore Dylan. And that lyric is actually one of my favourites. |
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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago
the right frame of mind -London |
"And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Bob Dylan (Just like a woman)
- and before you criticise me for posting song lyrics, remember he won the Nobel Prize for literature
No criticism here. I adore Dylan. And that lyric is actually one of my favourites. "
Aw shucks - you're making me python blush  |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
Hillside desolate |
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.
Yeats is a bit cheesy I know, but I love it anyway
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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago
the right frame of mind -London |
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Aw shucks - you're making me python blush
Well, that’s not very Dylan now is it?"
Those were the part of the draft lyrics he left out of the final version - scouts honour |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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""A little still she strove, and much repented,
And whispering "I will ne'er consent" - consented. "
Lord Byron
(Who happens to be one of my favourite writers. Just sayin'.)"
Veri good  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temparate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date:
Sonnet 18
W Shakespeare..
Just beautiful
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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On my heart
in beautiful calligraphy
You've written words
that only You and I can know.
Their secret You promised
to reveal one day
but now I see
You were only teasing
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- Rumi
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
A Room with a View ~ EM Forster |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
Keats-Bright Star Oh to have some one write that passionately about me |
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I can’t remember the exact wording but it’s a bit from ‘The Tommyknockers’ by Stephen King where he describes how large a piece of land is by saying how the owner had one day discovered an abandoned vehicle from years ago. |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
Hillside desolate |
"I can’t remember the exact wording but it’s a bit from ‘The Tommyknockers’ by Stephen King where he describes how large a piece of land is by saying how the owner had one day discovered an abandoned vehicle from years ago. "
Great book, I'm going to reread it now  |
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"I can’t remember the exact wording but it’s a bit from ‘The Tommyknockers’ by Stephen King where he describes how large a piece of land is by saying how the owner had one day discovered an abandoned vehicle from years ago.
Great book, I'm going to reread it now "
The characters are him and his wife. He wrote it whilst coming off cocaine. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I think i read different books to you
What do you read, our Merry?
Comics mainly "
“Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue, if you can pacify, and don’t raise a hand at all, until you’ve extended it.”
Wonder Woman |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I think i read different books to you
What do you read, our Merry?
Comics mainly
“Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue, if you can pacify, and don’t raise a hand at all, until you’ve extended it.”
Wonder Woman "
Fuck me you're good |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I think i read different books to you
What do you read, our Merry?
Comics mainly
“Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue, if you can pacify, and don’t raise a hand at all, until you’ve extended it.”
Wonder Woman
Fuck me you're good "
Oh believe me, I am. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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""I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine."
Birdsong ~ Sebastian Faulks
Oooooft. "
Thanks for this thread Op. What deliciously brief moments of utter beauty xxx |
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"I’ve stopped worrying so much about what’s going to happen or what has already happened and I’m thinking more and more about what is. Right now.
In front of me.
And what’s in front of me is life.
Glorious, glorious life –with all its frailties, frustrations and strife. With all its passion, brilliance and excitement.
There’s nothing quite like it, you know. You should have a go at it sometime.
It really is quite worth it."
from "Checking Out" by Nick Spalding |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Life is a storm my friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment and be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when the storm comes. Alexandra Dumas |
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