In vertebrate animals, flesh is the colloquial term for biological tissue which consists of skeletal muscles and fat as opposed to bones, viscera and integuments. Flesh may be used as food, in which case it commonly is called meat.
Famous quotes containing the word flesh:
“The high wore away, the chromed skeleton corroding hourly, flesh growing solid, the drug-flesh replaced with the meat of his life. He couldn’t think. He liked that very much, to be conscious and unable to think.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“our hands were
flames
stealing upon quickened flesh until
no part of us but was
sleek and
on fire”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?””
—William Blake (1757–1827)