Direct Bone Attachment

Famous quotes containing the words direct, bone and/or attachment:

    “He had robbed the body of its taint, the world’s taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Sang a bone upon the shore;
    “A child found all a child can lack,
    Whether of pleasure or of rest,
    Upon the abundance of my breast”:
    A bone wave-whitened and dried in the wind.
    ”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)