Quote by James Merrill Download Open image ““The eggshell of appearance split.”” — James Merrill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
“as elusive as a fleck of shell in a pool of slippery egg white.” — Wendy Corsi Staub Copy Share Image
“it is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.” — annie dillard Copy Share Image
“we are like a Egg ... if broken by inside , LIFE begins. if broken by outside,LIFE End.” — Sushil Copy Share Image
“Peeling an eggplant was like unveiling an ivory-skinned woman dressed all in black.” — Mohja Kahf Copy Share Image
“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? — James Merrill Copy Share Image
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
“Lost, is it, buried? One more missing piece? But nothing's lost. Or else: all is translation And every bit of us is lost in… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
I see those two hearts, I'm afraid, Still. Cool here in the graveyard of good and evil, They are even so to be honored… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
“Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.” — James Merrill Copy Share Image
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. — James Merrill Copy Share Image
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
