A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on... - Thomas Hardy

People say I must be cold–natured — sexless — on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self–contained in their daily lives.

You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first! Would to God you had never taken me up, since it was only to throw me down!

Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ.