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Eye Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,…
- But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has…
- You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing…
- The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.
- Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the…
- Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
- In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet…
- There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila