Animal Flesh

Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or flesh:

    “He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The last faint spark
    In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
    dark,
    The wounds of the baited bear,—
    The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
    On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)