There is always linkage, and let us choose eyes, harmony, sun and music. See how some of these quotes relate to “sight” or things held in the mind’s eye. The eyes may provide sight, but there are many kinds of vision.
“Those things that nature denied to human sight,
she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”
~~Ovid
“Now in the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
~~William Shakespeare (Richard III, 1.1.1)
“Harmony is chaos viewed from a distance.”
~~Phyllis Strupp
“Some dogs when they are around humans learn to smile.
It is true! Dogs do smile.
Now if only people could learn to wag their tails.”
~~ME
“The distant and the near had no longer any difference between them,
and I was in the whole, as far as my eyes could see, right to the sunset.
The wind and the rain were like boiling elements in a glass flask,
that was the entire earth and sky held in my…mind.
The sun, the stratus clouds, the prevailing wind,
the rustle of the dry sedge, the western sky, were at one.”
~~Kathleen Raine
“It is said one can die laughing.
If so, there are worse ways to go.”
~~ME
“Prayer is indeed good,
but while calling on the gods,
a man should himself lend a hand.”
~~Hippocrates
“No one has composed a perfect piece of music,
nor created a perfect painting.
Still, mankind is blessed by these artists’ attempts to do so.”
~~ME
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself;
(I am large–I contain multitudes.)”
~~Walt Whitman
“A jealous person is doubly unhappy–over what he has,
which is judged inferior, and what he has not,
which is judged superior.
Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.”
~~Desmond Tutu
