To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But ...it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated witho...ut end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alexander Woollcott broadcasts the story of the wife who returned a dog to the Seeing Eye with this note attached: "I am sending t...he dog back. My husband used to depend on me. Now he is independent, and I never know where he is."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a child stays needy until he is fifty oh mother-eye, oh mother-eye, crush me in... the parent is as strong as a telephone pole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,... An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If thou canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sunburning, that never looks in his glass for love of an...ything he sees there, let thine eye be thy cook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide the conquest of thy sight;... Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar, My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see the horses and the sad streets Of my childhood in an agate eye... Roving, under the clean sheets, Over a black hole in the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »