Beauty Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this…

— Robert Schumann

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

— Arthur Rimbaud

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason.…

— George Berkeley

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests…

— Anthony Trollope