Quoted in The Grove: touch
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
~Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
‘Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland
The windows of my soul
Always stare at you.
Knowing
That you have the perfect heart
To make a home.
~clairel estevez
EndQuote:
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
~Stephen R Covey
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Exercise Prompt for 10/11: law
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I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.
~Maureen Dowd
One of the most beautiful words is touch; it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!
~Mehmet Murat ildan
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Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.
~Richelle E Goodrich
One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick together.
~unknown
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.
~Jim Butcher
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.
~Marilyn Monroe
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Posted from the Grove
If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
~David Bowie
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign I am going in the right direction.
~April Greiman
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that’s why we decide we’re done. It’s getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
~Natalie Goldberg
And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.
~Edmund Spenser
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
~Virgil
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The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
~Yoshida Kenko
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
~Blaise Pascal
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man’s world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.
~Maurice Herzog
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~Dictionary.com: Breaking Thru Writers Block
https://www.dictionary.com/e/how-to-overcome-writers-block/?utm_source
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~Kenzo World: (3:48) the commercial touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoMqvniiEkk
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Her kisses left something to be desired … the rest of her.
~Author Unknown
A kiss is the upper persuasion for a lower invasion.
~Author Unknown
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone’s body without actually touching them?
~Padma Lakshmi
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
~Agnes de Mille
The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial one in any love story.
~Emil Ludwig
How delicious is the winning
of a kiss at love’s beginning.
~Thomas Campbell
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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VIDEO:
Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it’s inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It’s non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable.
~Author Unknown
Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.
~Gina Barreca
A hug is a great gift — one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.
~Author Unknown
A hug is like a boomerang — you get it back right away.
~Bil Keane
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
~Author Unknown
A hug is the shortest distance between friends.
~Author Unknown
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I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.
~Jonathan Safran Foer
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
~Amy Hempel
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The Future of Dating — learning to touch (2/3 reruns)
~Dust: Future Boyfriend (10:25) age reconsidered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_1YHHhry0w&t=90s
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~Dust: A Date in 2025 (12:51) when isolation is the rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8G3e3Cgl4
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~Dust: Multiverse Dating for Beginners (12:23) rehearsing in the multiverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0GaJ1WXCMY
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Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can’t hold back.
~Author Unknown
Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.
~Dorothy Parker
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All other caresses are valueless without a kiss; for is not a kiss the very autograph of Love?
~Henry Theophilus Finck
A man’s kiss is his signature.
~Mae West
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MUSIC:
Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can’t hold back.
~Author Unknown
Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.
~Dorothy Parker
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All other caresses are valueless without a kiss; for is not a kiss the very autograph of Love?
~Henry Theophilus Finck
A man’s kiss is his signature.
~Mae West
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~Diana Ross: Touch Me In The Morning — Charles Busch cover ( 4:17)
because he inhabits the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIzCmnuBHGY
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~Cut: Out of Touch (4:01) success, and the disconnect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glEQdzjdwFE
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~Little Mix: Touch (3:49) dedicated to NHS and workers of the pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqhDtDQPeE
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~Zhu: In The Morning (5:09) problematic, requires deciphering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f26tOVZ3j4Y
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~Omarion: Touch (3:22) street moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z_5lpErdyM
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They say that love is more important than money, have you ever tried paying your bills with a hug?
~Nishan Panwar
Gold thou mayest safely touch, but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.
~George Herbert
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
~Quoted in P.S. I Love You
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since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you…
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers.
~e e cummings
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.
~Proverb
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald
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People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
~Bob Hope
I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers — turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night!
~Author Unknown
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.
~Robert Klein
After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”
~Dennis Wolfberg
With any kind of physical test, I don’t know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they’d do those hearing tests? And you’d really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, ‘We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We’re sending the results to Washington, we’d like you to meet the President.
~Jerry Seinfeld
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fence in the forest
© Michael D Davis
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When you are hugging a child, always be the last one to let go. You never know how long they need it.
~Author Unknown
Always kiss your children goodnight — even if they’re already asleep.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr
It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child’s first language, understanding comes long after feeling.
~Frederick Leboyer
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
~Phyllis McGinley
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@Writers Platform
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name
~Tori Amos
We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: “Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack.”
~James Keller
It wasn’t really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.
~Rose Macaulay
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Exercise Prompt: touch
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? … ‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~Edmond Rostand
A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.
~Clare Whiting
“May I print a kiss on your lips?” I said,
And she nodded her full permission:
So we went to press and I rather guess
We printed a full edition.
~Joseph Lilientha
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
~Aristotle
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound — that he will never get over it.
~Robert Frost
It’s the closest I’ve come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.
~Sarah Strohmeyer
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
Seafaring Tail
Behold the ghoul in 4 dimensions
The heartless, soulless socialite
Lives to hear her fashion’s mention
Profess to love that she barely likes
Paint-on smiles thin application
Trap of marriage, stale affairs
Bed the chauffeur, her seduction
Abuse the staff who dare to care
I’m a merman warned of humans
Charmed by dangers and pirate life
Breathing air in lieu of ocean
Felt the touch of castrati knife
Defying lust and lover’s potion
Returned to love’s true mermaid wife
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touch and go
one last wish when i lay dying
spare me grief, no selfish crying
i would pass in peace, grant me silence
as i lived life, let me die alone
bid farewell, a touch, then go
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5-7-5-7-7 x 2/3
savory fare, love
salt to spice the humdrum life
touch viper pepper
burning lips to churning hips
sampled first at fingertip
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obvious madness
outbound train, sigh of gladness
no sign of sadness
rid at last touch of crudeness
wave goodbye to cruel coldness
breathing easy when
November comes ends the reign
return of kindness
nation’s wealth its people, not
knee-jerk greed, social blindness
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5-7-5
this paean of praise
mine eyes have seen the glory
they have touched on you
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And the softness of my body will be guarded from embrace.
By each button, hook, and lace.
~Amy Lowell
Sometimes I think you want me to touch you. How can I when you when you build a great wall around you?
~Tori Amos
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after ‘more sublime pursuits’. But if you ask me, I think Plato’s problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.
~Elif Safak
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others … an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands … When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
~Wallace Stegner
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
~Carolyn Kenmore
your hand. touching mine. this is how. galaxies. collide.
~Sanober Khan
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Quotes harvested from: https://azquotes.com, https://goodreads.com
https://quotes.yourdictionary.com/touch
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Video Harvest: https://youtube.com
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