Eyes

Famous quotes containing the word eyes:

    “And my eyes are blue;
    So ferry me across the water,
    Do, boatman, do!”

    “Step into my ferry-boat,
    Be they black or blue,”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “my eyes rejoicing—
    my beloved’s fan,
    so white it is”
    —Taniguchi Buson (1715–1783)