“Eat not the heart.”

“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”

“Then
Scale by scale,
We strip off
The delicacy
And eat
The peaceful mush
Of its green heart.”

“Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.”

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

“Split me open
With devotion
You put your hands in
And rip my heart out
Eat the music.”

“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”

“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

“I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart… I was thinking, "I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist." And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, "How does it do that?" And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, "How does that bee do that?"”