Dead Skin

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or skin:

    “Irrational streams of blood are staining earth;
    Empedocles has thrown all things about;
    Hector is dead and there’s a light in Troy;
    We that look on but laugh in tragic joy.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time you’d be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.”
    —Edward Blishen (b. 1920)