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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64