Before you diagnose any sickness, make sure there is no sickness in the mind or heart. For the emotions in a man's moon or sun, can point to the sickness in any one of his other parts.

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.