“The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.” LittlesHabitCarefulTeethUsualBrushing Author:Randall Jarrell
“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.” MenWorldLittlesNaturalRoomsDevelopmentTeethNakedThrownFreakBubblesCoveringSkullsPudding Author:William Golding