“Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin”
"Whispers of Immortality"
Poems (1920)
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20th century English author 1888–1965Related quotes
“Come with me on a journey beneath the skin
We will look together for the Pan within.”
"The Pan Within"
This Is the Sea (1985)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
“Instead, it had slipped into her subconscious, and worked its way beneath her skin.”
Page 280 Last Breath
Body of Evidence
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”
After meeting Anna Magnani, as quoted in Tennessee Williams : Rebellious Puritan (1961) by Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, p. 175
“There is hate's crown beneath which all is
death; there's love without which none
is king.”
Poetry