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I decided to start collecting some of my favorite quotes here... this is one that my talented flickr friend Eglantine has on her page... more to come....

"I am inclined to think that the flowers we most love are those we knew when we were very young, when our senses were most acute to color and to smell, and our natures most lyrical." Dorothy Thomson in The Courage to Be Happy (1957)

"We are all born naked and screaming and if you're lucky that sort of thing won't stop there." ~Unknown~ (courtesy of my friend Lea)

"The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame." -Rod Steiger (thanks to my friend Michelle Gordon Cohen)


i like my body
e.e. cummings

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which I will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh...And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you quite so new

"i like my body" by e.e. cummings from Complete Poems 1904-1962.


…We met in a strange world, in a frenzy.
A spiral of ups and downs.
Didn’t I feel the lit orb, inside and out?
Later, I returned to the calcium
of loneliness, the fine shell spotted and cracked,
and the delicate thing ticking inside.

from “Certain Sparrow” Anne Marie Macari, She Heads into the Wilderness

thanks to my friend Michael...
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

-- Charlotte Bronte