Open Heart Surgery

Famous quotes containing the words open, heart and/or surgery:

    “Betray, kind husband, Thy spouse to our sights,
    And let mine amorous soul court Thy mild Dove,
    Who is most true and pleasing to Thee then
    When she is embraced and open to most men.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “Then one will say, ‘He is not dead, maybe,
    Who was mortality’s unshaken lover
    Who loved the spring upon the Tennessee,
    The hushed fall and, again, the coming clover.’
    None will recall, not knowing, the twisted roads
    Where the mind wanders till the heart corrodes.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Ever since surgery began, man’s destiny has been to suffer, in order that he might be cured. And no one can change that, gentlemen.”
    —Jean Scott Rogers, and Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)