
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 11-12), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
“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)
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star