#ecstasy

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#drugs #ecstasy #empathy

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#love #passion #sexuality #love

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. ↗

— George Steiner

#ecstasy #whisper #grammar

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #ecstasy #emotion #forms #inexhaustible

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. ↗

— James Broughton

#me #much #poetry #practice #sexual

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! ↗

— Robert Browning

#burn #cheeks #clutch #core #ecstasy

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. ↗

— John Updike

#ecstasy #existence #experience #feel #feels

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#enough #find #joy #life #living

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. ↗

— Rita Dove

#ecstasy #feel #i #i feel #me

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#anything #avidity #earth #ecstasy #enthusiasm