Flayed Alive

Famous quotes containing the words flayed and/or alive:

“you have flayed us
with your blossoms,
spare us the beauty
of fruit-trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“I remember meeting you in a dark dream
Of April, you or some girl,
The necklace of wishes alive and breathing around your throat.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)