Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver. And I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now what's all this crud about no movie tonig...ht?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saint, saintliness is a long way off. It is like a tall and beautiful palm tree.... If you climb it, you drink the love potion, but if you fall you break into pieces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You haven't weighed the consequences for your love,... nor have you any regard for your friends. Why are you making such a jealous fuss now, prude, when it's too late? With your own hands You've brought down upon yourself these coals, their blazing points of flame as bright as Doomsday Fire. So enough now of your crying in the wilderness. You've erased the tracery on your cheek by covering it with your palm. Your sighs have kissed away the juice of your lower lip, tasty as nectar and at every instant, the tear that's stuck in your throat is making your sloping breasts tremble. Unkind girl, anger has become your lover, not I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower,... Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves... with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to sudde...nly appear in the palm of the hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can nail my left palm to the left-hand cross-piece but... I can't do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the right, a help, a love, a you, a wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »