Poetry Quote by Louise Erdrich

“Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for its copies.…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of…

— Jonah Lehrer

“The letters of our DNA signify our origins, even if they can’t inscribe our futures.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“The strands of my soul which should weave together to create a life have shredded and ripped into fragments so tangled up that I…

— Cathryn Kemp

“only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself.”

— Dave Barry

“We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be…

— Hugh Howey

“It can also be a sign that you had a twin you absorbed in the womb. They call it chimerism. In that case, I…

— Ethan Cross

“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling in my…

— Tina May Hall

“Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.”

— neil peart

“the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of…

— Lisa See

“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of the body,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.”

— Kate Bernheimer