Exotic Species

Famous quotes containing the words exotic and/or species:

    I did not know the woman I would be
    nor that blood would bloom in me
    each month like an exotic flower,
    nor that children,
    two monuments,
    would break from between my legs....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)