“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
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“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.”
— Pliny the Elder, book Natural History
Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia
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Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
"Oration VII": "To the Cynic Heracleios", as quoted in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1923) by Wilmer Cave France Wright, p. 105; also in Hidden Wisdom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (2005) by Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa, p. 25
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“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) American painter
Letter to his father, Benjamin Eakins (1867), quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933).
“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
" Casidas http://www.poesia-inter.net/fgldt204.htm," IV: Casida de la Mujer Tendida from Primeras Canciones (1936)
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
Source: Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020), p. 216
