Flayed Skin

Famous quotes containing the words flayed and/or skin:

“you have flayed us
with your blossoms,
spare us the beauty
of fruit-trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady’s loose gown; I am withered like an old
apple-john.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)