Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.”
—William Empson (19061984)
“... asks what its too late to ask:
Where is my life? Where is my life?
What have I done with my life?”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we dont seem to take much pleasure in our buying, its because were engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves ... as supplicants admitted to a shrine.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)