What should I do about the wild heart that wants to be free and the tame heart that wants to come home? I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close.
I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at night.
​I don’t want to tell you where I am.
I want to be with you. 
— Jeanette Winterson

​The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

• — George Carlin

​I thought my fire was out,
and stirred the ashes….
I burnt my fingers. 
― Antonio Machado

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is
what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
— Matt Hardy

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They stared at her together for a moment.
Sun beams played over marble,
making the pink alabaster glow as if rosy blood danced
just under the surface
of Aphrodite's skin. 
― Eloisa James

when He created you lying in bed
He knew what He was doing
He was drunk and He was high
and He created the mountains and the 
sea and fire at the same time

He made some mistakes
but when He created you lying in bed
He came all over his Blessed Universe
 - Charles Bukowski

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When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by the camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing.
I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images
and shapes which my eyes had never observed. 

• — Bill Brandt

Now and then she turns her eyes to him, shining like stars,
while all about her is the witchery of the moonbeams
​and in his soul, the witchery of dream.
 - Roy Rolfe Gilson
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You will never be able to experience everything.
So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
— Albert Camus
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I am the poet of the body,
And I am the poet of the soul.
The pleasures of heaven are with me and
the pains of
hell are with me.
The first I graft and increase upon myself
 — the latter I
translate into a new tongue.
— Walt Whitman