nakedness quotes

Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 42:9.

The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

-William Blake
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

- George Frost Kennan
Of postwar agreements to govern Eastern Europe. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

- Robert Motherwell
  Paper given at a symposium, 5 Feb, at the Museum of Modern  Art, NewYork, published in What  Abstract  Art Means to Me: Bulletin of the Museum of Modern  Art (Spring1951).

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his wayattended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

-William Wordsworth
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 5 (published1807).