Heart Asks Pleasure

Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:

    Look into the world—how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man’s affliction, taking shelter behind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as deviance exists at all in human relationships if they seem satisfactory to those who share them.
    Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)

    in the pleasure of that communion

    I lose track,
    the moon I watch goes down, the

    tide swings you away before
    I know I’m
    alone again long since,
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)