Permanent Body

Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or body:

    In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    I—love’s skein upon the ground,
    My body in the tomb—
    Shall leap into the light lost
    In my mother’s womb.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)