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Eye Quotes - Page 35

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

"The Songs of Synge : The Man Who Shaped His Life as He Shaped His Plays". New York Morning Telegraph, February 18, 1917.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

"If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens-- where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life". Book by Stephen Webb, p. 150, quoting "Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College", 2002.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.204

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

"Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.