Air Quote by Stephen Spender

When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen,…

— Rupert Spira

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

— Byron Katie

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the…

— Tomas Transtromer

“our visuallydominated world sight is almost synonymous with understanding. We acknowledge light dawning by saying: ‘I see!’ The metaphor of vision suffuses our attempts…

— Richard Fortey

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling…

— Walter Pater

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

— Alastair Campbell

“I have an innate desire to take my senses by surprise and expose them to the naked beauty of this earth.”

— Sabah Carrim

As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That…

— Sylvia Plath

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

I hide behind my shades,so you cannot see my soul, I am naked without them, feelings I can not control. My shades are black,…

— CTate

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and…

— William Wordsworth