The anatomical difficulty as to how and where the wings are to grow will vanish when they are felt sprouting!

Edward Carpenter, Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure

For as a drop of water, when it comes in contact with red-hot iron, wraps itself in a cloud of vapor and is saved from destruction, so the little mind of man, lest it should touch the burning truth of Nature and God and be consumed, evolves at each point of contact a veil of insubstantial thought which allows it for a time to exist apart, and becomes the nurse of its self-consciousness.

Edward Carpenter, Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure