“As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: If You Deceive
“As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 2, "The Bagful of Dreams"
“My body separates me from all beings and all things. Only my body.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Voces (1943)
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
Official blog, (July 2007) https://grrm.livejournal.com/17565.html?thread=2143645#t2143645
“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: P.S. I Love You
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
V, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"A Speech at the Lost-and-Found"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)