Aeschylus on blood
“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
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I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ’d, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene When mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Blood is the god of war’s rich livery.
Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie Tear me open and I will bleed in your name. My heart aches from your absence, but in the aching and breaking is where my art is born.
Shruthi SagarShruthi Sagar Tear me apart cut open my flesh, until I bleed out just like the rest of the mess.
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