Blake Auden on body
Blake Auden55 quotes“My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.”
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
Blake AudenBlake Auden What if love just isn’t enough.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
Blake AudenBlake Auden What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
Blake AudenBlake Auden The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
Blake AudenBlake Auden To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
Blake AudenBlake Auden You are more than the things that have hurt you.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
Blake AudenBlake Auden She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
Blake AudenBlake Auden It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
Blake AudenBlake Auden These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
Arthur RimbaudArthur Rimbaud Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
Antoine LavoisierAntoine Lavoisier Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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