Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

    “The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “I pray that Allah may be moved
    To drop sleep on her eyes because she loved.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)