Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they playèd at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

[T]he foot should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us.[…] It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.

Rub her feet!

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet.

I took in her shoes, the dark leather and bright red laces, the toes of the shoes like smirks and the high heels like stems or talons. They were cancan shoes. I’d never seen them before and so I stared at them. I’d

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

Man's secret horror of his foot is one of the explanations for the tendency to conceal its length and form as much as possible. Heels of greater or lesser height, depending on the sex, distract from the foot's low and flat character. Besides the uneasiness is often confused with a sexual uneasiness; this is especially striking among the Chinese who, after having atrophied the feet of women, situate them at the most excessive point of deviance. The husband himself must not see the nude feet of his wife, and it is incorrect and immoral in general to look at the feet of women. Catholic confessors, adapting themselves to this aberration, ask their Chinese penitents "if they have not looked at women's feet.