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"That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night."
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

"When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere."
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

"It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are."
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

"Le serpent qui danse

Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,
Comme une étoffe vacillante,
Miroiter la peau!

Sur ta chevelure profonde
Aux acres parfums,
Mer odorante et vagabonde
Aux flots bleus et bruns,

Comme un navire qui s'éveille
Au vent du matin,
Mon âme rêveuse appareille
Pour un ciel lointain.

Tes yeux où rien ne se révèle
De doux ni d'amer,
Sont deux bijoux froids où se mêlent
L'or avec le fer.

A te voir marcher en cadence,
Belle d'abandon,
On dirait un serpent qui danse
Au bout d'un bâton.

Sous le fardeau de ta paresse
Ta tête d'enfant
Se balance avec la mollesse
D'un jeune éléphant,

Et ton corps se penche et s'allonge
Comme un fin vaisseau
Qui roule bord sur bord et plonge
Ses vergues dans l'eau.

Comme un flot grossi par la fonte
Des glaciers grondants,
Quand l'eau de ta bouche remonte
Au bord de tes dents,

Je crois boire un vin de bohême,
Amer et vainqueur,
Un ciel liquide qui parsème
D'étoiles mon coeur!"
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / the waiting non-arms of a snake, / its tan beaded-bag skin / studded with black diamonds.

Up it coiled to speak to me a eye level. / Imagine! that sleek finger / rising out of the land's palm / and coiling faster than a Hindu rope. / The thrill of a bull snake / startled in the morning / when the mesas lie pooled / in a custard of light / kept me bright than ball lightning all day.

Praise leapt first to mind / before flight or danger, / praise that knows no half-truth, and pardons all."
― Diane Ackerman, I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

"The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable."
― F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow

"I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing."
― E.B. White

"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."
― Donna Lynn Hope

"Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily..."
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"A dozen cobras moved as one, shattering their bottles. Wine and glass sprayed the room. The snakes sprang for Isyllt's attacker with fangs unfolded. He screamed high and sharp as they uncoiled, long slick bodies whipping through the air. She wasn't sure if their venom could survive death and pickling, but it didn't seem to matter. After several bites, he curled on the floor, weeping and trying to bat the undead snakes away."
― Amanda Downum, Kingdoms of Dust

"Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out."
― D.H. Lawrence , Studies in Classic American Literature

"The one area that Winkleman avoided was dealing in contemporary art, which Memling described as "shooting poisonous snakes with a water pistol."
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

"Evil travels—like all energy, it transfers between people and objects; it moves, gets stored, moves again. But where did it originate? When Eve ate the apple? Or before that, with Satan, that fallen seraph who took the form of a snake and whispered with slithering tongue into her ear? Did she birth it or was it thrust upon us by some insufflating malefic serpent? Is it man-made or a supernatural force?"
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

"Snakes, after all, have a great sense of decorum and order."
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

"Racists are snakes. Their minds are closed but their mouths are wide open, full of venom, ready to sting and destroy people around them."
― Mouloud Benzadi

"Snakes don't hiss anymore these days they're calling you babe, bro, sister & BFF"
― rasarab

"Snakes do not hiss anymore; they call you babe, bro or friend. It is getting harder and harder to find someone that you can actually trust in this world. So many people in this world couldn't care less about things such as character, honor, integrity, respect, or honesty."
― rasarab

"Dragons and snakes aren't so different."
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

"....since all snakes appreciate jewels, precious metals, and mirrors. Their vanity causes them to spend many minutes chasing their reflection in their surfaces, but one must not think poorly of snakes for this reason, since they are kind, thoughtful creatures."
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

"We were going for cake with…wait for it…a six-foot snake."
― Cindy Callaghan, Lost in Paris

"A small snake grows into a big snake."
― Marty Rubin

"The wings and snakes may have been late additions to the portrayal of Medusa, but they are nonetheless a natural concomitant of the ferocious death Goddess. Wings were added to Medusa's iconography ca. 800 BCE, by the Greeks; later on, she was described as winged in text as well. In the portrayal of the Medusa from Miletus, Medusa is associated with snakes but she is not snaky herself. Nonetheless, she accrued the iconography of the Neolithic bird and snake Goddess, the Great Goddess of birth, death, and regeneration."
― Miriam Robbins Dexter, Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom

"Copulation of serpents determined my destiny. Boyish, unmanly, I ventured, adventured my way into forests primeval; glanced down in the dirt, in the dirt-trodden path, where I witnessed the scaly sinews of snakes intertwining in love..."
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous

"Human beings and snakes can both kill you, with one major difference:
Human beings will then walk in your funeral, the snakes won't!"
― Mouloud Benzadi

"The Aelfinn are not evil, but they are so different from humanity they may as well be so. They are not to be trusted."
—Birgitte Silverbow"
― Robert Jordan, The Complete Wheel of Time

"Insignificance by Stewart Stafford

From the emerald Draco star,
Fell the coiled Rosslyn figure,
Unwinding into elongated form,
The golden crozier of St Patrick.

Faded gods upon ruined temples,
All came alive, screeching creeds,
Overwhelming minds and bodies,
Fanatics expiring from confusion.

In the shamanic ritualistic dance,
Of an in-out, Hokey-Cokey culture,
Spins the stained mah-jongg piece,
The missing link apes checkmate.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved."
― Stewart Stafford

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