Red Flesh

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or flesh:

“Her fortune, too, lies there,
Converted into cool hard steel
And right red velvet lining;
While over her tan impassivity
Shot silk is shining.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Made of old rags of tongues,
of flesh slipped through the abortionist’s knife
you snake thing....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)