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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

—Bible (Old Testament)

All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is,Thou shalt die the death.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and bloodö Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. 308

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

—Bible (Old Testament)

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

—Fielding, Henry

And I replied unto all these things which encompass the door of my flesh,'Ye have told me of my god, that ye are not he: tell me something of him'. And theycried all with a great voice,'He made us'.Myquestioning themwasmy mind's desire, and their Beauty was their answer.

—Bridges, Robert Seymour

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

—Appleton,Thomas Gold

O empty boast of flesh.

—Habington,William

We will listen to the wind's text Blown through the roof, or the thrush's song In the thick bush that proved him wrong, Wrong from the start, for nature's truth Is primary and her changing seasons Correct out of a vaster reason The vague errors of the flesh.

—Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)

   I do not want peace nor beauty nor even freedom from 494 pain. I want to fight and to feel new gods in the flesh.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh.We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that.We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

—Thoreau, Henry David

'A chilli,'said Rebecca, gasping,'Oh, yes!' She thought a chilli wassomething cool, asitsname imported, and was served with some.'How fresh and green they look,'she said, and put one into her mouth. It was hotter than the curry; flesh and blood could bear it no longer. She laid down her fork.'Water, for Heaven's sake, water!'she cried.

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

Oh! God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

—Honorius of Autun

Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

—Milton,John

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

—Bible (NewTestament)

La chair est triste, he¤  las! et j'ai lu tous les livres. The flesh is sad, alas! and I've read all the books.

—Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

—Bible (NewTestament)

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dryand thirsty land, where no water is.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

—Milton,John

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.

—Binyon, (Robert) Laurence

Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be Where air might wash and long leaves cover me; Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers, Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

And the L God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LGod had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said,This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Thereforeshall a manleavehisfatherand hismother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   We do not presume to come to this thyTable,O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thyTable.But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

It isthespiritthat quickeneth; thefleshprofitethnothing: the words that I speak unto you, theyare spirit, and they are life.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—de Kooning,Willem

On ne s'e¤  veille qu'au contact de l'amour. Et avant ce temps, on n'est que jardins sans douleurs, espaces fourmillant de corps e¤  rotiques, champs de mers poissonneuses, chairs sans soucis. One wakes only tothetouch of love.Beforethen, we are only gardens without sorrows, spaces swarming with erotic bodies, landscapes of seas full of fish, flesh without cares.

—Cixous, He¤  le'  ne

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Sacred Heart o' Jesus, take away our hearts o' stone, and give us hearts o'flesh! Take away this murdherin' hate, an'give usThine own eternal love!

—OŁ    Bruadair, Da¤ i bh|¤  dh

   Now gae your wa'söTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunöthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

—Ferber, Edna

How amiable are thy tabernacles,O L of hosts! 96 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the L: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, thesparrow hath found anhouse, and theswallowa nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars,O L of hosts, my King, and my God.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

—Renoir, Pierre Auguste

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.

—Bible (Old Testament)

So I lie, whose fount of pride, Dear distress, and joy allied, Is my somber flesh and skin, With the dark blood dammed within.

—Cullen, Countee

For present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

—Dryden,John

Let's press the flesh.

—Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule allöthat is myself.

—Aung San Suu Kyi

Sculpture in stone should look honestly like stone†to make it look like flesh and blood, hair and dimples is coming down to the level of the stage conjuror.

—Moore, Henry Spencer

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

   Tho'marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

—Congreve,William

Something of glass about her, of dead water, Chills and holds us, Far more fatal than painted flesh or the lodestone of live hair This despair of crystal brilliance.

—MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis

And besides, Mrs Forthby in the flesh was a different kettle of fish to Mrs Forthby in his fantasies. In the latter she had a multitude of perverse inclinations, which corresponded exactly with his own unfortunate requirements, while possessing a discretion that would have done credit to aTrappist nun. In the flesh she was disappointingly different.

—Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart, and England is not of her flesh and body.

—Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron

The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

—Rochdale

Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio¤ n  picto¤  rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca¤  strame el goce de la carne, satisfa¤  ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.

—Fuentes, Carlos

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

'Tisthemaddest fantasticalest girl.Inever knew somuch flesh and so much nimbleness put together.

—Dekker,Thomas

For they that are after the flesh do mind thethings of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity; the first day of our Jubilee is death.

—Browne, SirThomas

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.But put forththinehand now, and touchhisboneand his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

—Bible (Old Testament)

As for meöfor me, the grass grew longer, and more sorrowful, and the trees were surfaced like flesh, and girls were no longer to be treated lightly but were creatures of commanding sadness, and all journeys through the valley were now made alone, with passion in every bush, and the motions of wind and cloud and stars were suddenly for myself alone, and voices elected me of all men living and called me to deliver the world, and I groaned from solitude, blushed when I stumbled, loved strangers and bread and butter, and made long trips through the rain on my bicycle, stared wretchedly through lighted windows, grinned wryly to think how little I was known, and lived in a state of raging excitement.

—Lee, Laurie

La mort serait un beau long voyage et les vacances illimite¤  es de la chair des structures et des os. Death should be a long, beautiful voyage and limitless vacations of the flesh.

—Tzara,Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

—Bible (NewTestament)

What thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self.

—Milton,John

Were I (who to my loss already am One of those strange prodigious creatures, Man) A spirit, free to choose for my own share What case of flesh and blood I'd choose to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

What's this flesh? A little crudded milk, fantastical puff- paste.

—Webster,John

And the children of Israel said unto them,Would to God we had died by thehand of the L in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth to this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

—Bible (Old Testament)

And theWord wasmade flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Hombre, tienes un hijo, un hijo que te hicieron creer podr|¤a inmortalizarte llevando el germen de ti mismo por siglos de generaciones† Tu carne, Hombre, carne deleznable, carne podrida que no puede soportar el peso de tu inmortalidad. No, no hay nada de ti mismo en esa carne. ‚Tu hijo no te hara¤   inmortal!' Man, you have a son, a son who they made you believe would make you immortal by carrying your seed through centuries of generations† Your flesh,O man, your despicable and rotten flesh that cannot bear the sight of your immortality. No: there's nothing of yourself in that flesh.Your son won't make you immortal!'

—Marque¤  s, Rene¤