Skin Prick

Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or prick:

“my soul lingers over the skin of you
and I wonder if I’m ruining all we had,
and had not,
by making this break,
this torn wedding ring,
this wrenched life....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Have we no culture, no refinement,—but skill only to live coarsely and serve the Devil?—to acquire a little worldly wealth, or fame, or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender and living kernel to us? Shall our institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)