And if the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul. I think that if years later I were to see the trace from an old incision of mine, I should know it at once, as one recognizes his pet expressions.


Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976). The Knife

Richard Selzer Quotes

And if the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your ...

And if the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your ...

And if the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your ...

And if the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your ...