Original Hand

Famous quotes containing the words original and/or hand:

    Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me—a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    No hand has been allowed to touch
    The rose I hide,
    Though eyes have looked upon it and desired it.
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    ErPo. Erotic Poetry; the Lyrics, Ballads, Idyls, and Epics of Love—Classical to Contemporary. William Cole, ed. (1963)