And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Quotes
The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596One’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 BCNothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64