Perceive

Famous quotes containing the word perceive:

“And as she died so must we die ourselves,
And thence ye may perceive the world’s a dream.
Life, how and what is it?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “Artist.””
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)