The Buzz of Fellowfeeling

a poem I came across that says it well


I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough

I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea
There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them,
and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well.

All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.