That same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot of thought, conceived of spleen, and born of madness, that blind... rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I am in love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordina...ry it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the t...omb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one's eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into yo...ur two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers think and talk in concrete, literal terms. When they hear a phrase such as "losing your temper," they may wonder wher...e the lost temper can be found. Other expressions they may hear in times of crisis--raising your voice, crying your eyes out, going to pieces, falling apart, picking on each other, you follow in your father's footsteps--may be perplexing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light.... Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in t...he old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than plea...sure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!... The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was... too hard for the digestion of the Cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »