Insect Body

Famous quotes containing the words insect and/or body:

“The universe is not rough-hewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices; every part is full of life.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The body is no body to be seen
But is an eye that studies its black lid.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)