Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had... seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch, ...be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers' flats in fields of soya beans... Tower up like silver pencils, score on score.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.... Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing... to do with. What they can't admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but... A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens their ears..., and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn them aside from their deeds, and keep them from pride, to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female sex have long been the acknowledged possessors of a sort of mental quickness and intellectual acumen, or rather sharpne...ss of vision, which may be better understood by the term sprightliness of imagination, which has enabled them to discern, or at least to recognize those smaller springs of action that regulate the conduct of mankind, which, from their supposed insignificancy, have escaped the grosser sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »