“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
“Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.”
"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 11-12), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
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American writer and social activist 1902–1967Related quotes
“Love is naked, and loves not beauty gained by artifice.”
Nudus Amor formam non amat artificem.
I, ii, 8; translation by G.P. Goold
Elegies
“5305. Truth loves to go naked.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Beetle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“1200. Craft must have Clothes; but Truth loves to go naked.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
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