Eyes

Famous quotes containing the word eyes:

“I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.”
—John Cale (b. 1940)

“We flee away from cities, but we bring
The best of cities, these learned classifiers,
Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream—a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows—is essentially poetry.”
—Michel Leiris (1901–1990)