Quotes About Flayed

But thinking it my duty to stretch the flayed skin of my childhood on some sort of skeleton of convention

This is "poetry," this song of the wind across teeth, this message from the flayed tongue to the flayed ear.

But I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by light rain of guts and flayed skin.

The flayed man as theoretician of detachment...The convulsionary as skeptic...

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

Here was the impossible, and it was beautiful, and it was terrible, and it flayed open his chest to show that his heart, numb for so long, was still vital and beating . . . just so it could be ripped out again, after all these years?

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.