I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the…

E. M. Forster
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul! ✨ E.M. Forster (2012). A Room with a View, p.166, Courier Corporation
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul! ✨ E.M. Forster (2012). A Room with a View, p.166, Courier Corporation

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