Body Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Peter Kreeft

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects…

— Arthur Rimbaud

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 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

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 heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes”

— Munia Khan

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain

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

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

— James Russell Lowell