Flayed Skin

Famous quotes containing the words flayed and/or skin:

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

    It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)