Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
~Shelley Winters

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
~Katherine Mansfield

Naked is our natural state, and I loved sharing my nakedness with the world! I think that every woman should embrace the freedom and power of capturing herself in Goddess mode. To me, a body is a divine thing, and it has been a pleasure sharing my most intimate side.
~Erica The Kiwi

EndQuote:
Woman’s nudity is wiser than the philosopher’s teachings.
~Max Ernst

 

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Exercise Prompt for 07/19:  book

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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
~Francis Bacon

Nudity is undignified and an error of taste
~Adolf Hitler

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
~Otto von Bismarck

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
~Oscar Wilde

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Posted from the Grove

The Church says: The body is a sin.
Science says: The body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The body says: I am a fiesta.
~Eduardo Galeano

Any major drugstore has thousands of different products shelved up, aisle after aisle, just to make people fit for each other’s company.
~David J Beard

Most guys aren’t that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts, but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size.
~From “The Playboy Advisor

When you get the personality, you don’t need the nudity.
~Mae West

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~NYTimes:  The Nude Selfie Is Now High Art  —  The Times, they are a’changin’
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/sunday/covid-nude-selfies.html?action

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~Wordgrove:  The Sin of Skin  —  two part essay
https://wordgrove.com/exiled.html

 

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Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn’t see anything else while they saw her body.
~Brent Weeks

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
~Bridget Fonda

Naked people are, by definition, unarmed.
~Mira Grant

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VIDEO:

I think as an actor, you’re more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don’t understand all these questions about nudity. It’s a nonsense. He’s an actor, an artist, so get on with it.
~Steve McQueen

There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don’t think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.
~Julia Roberts

I wouldn’t do nudity in films. For me, personally… To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
~Julia Roberts

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~Luis Urculo:  NUDE   (1:00)   a short, allegorical metaphor … sort of
https://vimeo.com/89732928

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~Nick Murray Willis:  Lady Godiva  —  Diane Morgan narrating   (3:28)   gleeful retelling of a classic
https://vimeo.com/120702648

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~Yan McLine:  France  —  Photo Tour   (3:58)   structural beauty: nature, architecture, human form
https://vimeo.com/382364635

 

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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
~John Updike

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
~Will Rogers

A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.
~Author unknown

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MUSIC:

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
~W H Auden

The stronger the body, the more it obeys; the weaker the body, the more it commands.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
~Anaïs Nin

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~Keb Mo:  Put a Woman in Charge   (4:04)   soon is not soon enough

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~Highwoman:  Highwomen   (4:08)  counterpoint to men’s version

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~Kolby Garrison:  Eagle When She Flies   (3:04)   one gift taken, a voice given

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~Judith Lucy Is All Woman:  I Am Woman  (3:43)   sequential choir

 

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
~Michelangelo

An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!
~Ramana Pemmaraju

We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Doonesbury

 

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To me, nudity is a joke. I don’t think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I’d marry her right off and be faithful to the end.
~Charles Bukowski

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.
~Samuel Butler

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
~Erma Bombeck

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Statue Of Woman
photo:  Stavrialena Gontzou

 

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
~Honore de Balzac

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.
~John Stoltenberg

Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact – lewdity a state of mind.
~Paul Outerbridge

Just because you’re naked doesn’t mean you’re sexy. Just because you’re cynical doesn’t mean you’re cool.
~Tom Robbins

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@Writers Platform

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist–nothing shields him from the world’s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
~E B White

The trouble with having a body is that people know it’s where you hang out and you don’t get any privacy.
~Robert Brault

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public
~Paulo Coelho

What happens when you drop all the belief, all the opinions, and all the judgment? Wouldn’t that be a form of nudity as well?
~Neeraj Agnihotri

 

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Exercise Prompt:  nude

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~BarTalk:

Peeping Thom’s Bleues

Methinks me sanity I would protect
Prithee, heed me now whilst I protest
Lady! God, I’ve a sight inside
Five feet tall, a half league wide
Thee on a horse, unclothed, astride

Onerous tax, votive nudity
As beauty must, it tempted me
Thus, etched eternal in my mind
That memory now I return to find
It pleases me, e’er now I’m blind

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untitled

naked hanging bulb
long electric cord
black and braided
faded painted porch
haunted country house
boarded doors
dead eye windows
lifeless by the shore
made a slave, lies of night
imported lives light aborted

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Sin Of Skin

War’s classy tutors
Teach Biology
Instruct cadets
At the academy
Plebes in class
Learn Anatomy
Study target hearts
Bodies of the enemy

Therein rubs the lie
That denies the truth
Shared sin of skin
Shame’s birthday suit
Adored adorned
Heaven’s kiss
God’s birthday gift
That both are born

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New Ditty  #12

Nudity?
Said it was new
did he?
Which gnu
did he
inter-view?

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interlude

skinny dipping nudes
denied that skin is lewd
way more fun than prudes
who judge that art is crude
conclude that God was rude
hapless deluded Dude, who
should have known better

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5-7-5-7-7 x 2

movie preview nudes
naked skinscape front page news
earth stripped down to ground
violin scored violence
bombed out landscapes get no views

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found sex but not love
married thrice but never wed
played chess but not sports
studied nudes but not naked
got some knowledge but not wise

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5-7-5 x 2

large picture window
new to me this nudity
neighbors don’t approve

unplanned nudes, post banned
scanned pictures most largely panned
nay-bores plan to sue

 

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I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model’s. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.
~Cindy Olsen

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit and flesh would have a hard time untangling if they were put to it.
~Henry Stanley Haskins

There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
~Rumer Godden

We don’t stop at our skin.
~Dolores Krieger

 

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Harvested from:  https://azquotes.com , https://goodreads.com , http://www.quotegarden.com , http://www.quoteland.com ,
https://wiseoldsayings.com

Curated by: Wordgrove

 

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