Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.
I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.
Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Some people are born with a caul. I was born with a jacket.
I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.
Don't step on my blue suede shoes.
I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case
