Famous quotes containing the words earth and/or ritual:
“Gull, grass and girl
In air, earth and bed
Join the long whirl
Of all the resurrected....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. The promiscuous woman is self-contaminated and incapable of clear ideas. She has ruptured the ritual integrity of her body.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)