Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame,
And a the warld to rest are gane,
The waes o my heart fa in showers frae my ee,
While my gudeman lies sound by me.
Young Jamie loed me weel, and sought me for his bride;”
—Lady Anne Lindsay (17501825)
“At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“in the pleasure of that communion
I lose track,
the moon I watch goes down, the
tide swings you away before
I know Im
alone again long since,”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)