Concern Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through…

— Henry David Thoreau

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

— Henry David Thoreau

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

— Oscar Wilde

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

— Thomas Kuhn

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

— Edith Sitwell

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

— Peter Kreeft

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof…

— John Henry Newman

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains…

— John Locke

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will…

— James A. Michener

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists…

— John Lubbock

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as…

— Leonardo da Vinci