Blind

Famous quotes containing the word blind:

    “Who is at my window, who, who?
    It’s the blind cuckoo, mulling
    the old song over.
    The old song is about fear, about
    tomorrow and next year.
    Timor mortis conturbat me, he sings....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would be like a blind man willing to see.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)