“What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.” LongMomentsBloodCrimeArguingFleshCellsClawsFlesh And BloodProwling Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976 Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.” HumansKindStillsStatesMomentsFacesLostAudienceAbsolutesOneselfFleshCinemaThat MomentEcstasyHuman FacesGarbo Author:Greta Garbo