Eyes

"Dark eyes are dearer far Than those that mock the hyacinthine bell."

"Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, boundless heaven Contracted to two circles underneath Their long, fine lashes; dark, far, measureless, Orb within orb, and line through line inwoven."

"Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?"

"So when thou saw'st in nature's cabinet Stella thou straight'st look'st babies in her eyes."

"But have ye not heard this, How an one-eyed man is Well sighted when He is among blind men?"

"Were you the earth dear love, and I the skies My love would shine on you like to the sun And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven waxed blind and till the world were done."

"The Father of Heaven. Scoop, young Jesus, for her eyes, Wood-browned pools of Paradise— Young Jesus, for the eyes, For the eyes of Viola. Angels. Tint, Prince Jesus, a Duskèd eye for Viola!"

"But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen."

"How blue were Ariadne's eyes When, from the sea's horizon line, At eve, she raised them on the skies! My Psyche, bluer far are thine."

"Blue eyes shimmer with angel glances. Like spring violets over the lea."

"The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart."

"Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth, Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array He cheers the morn, and all the earth relieveth; And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd with her eye."

"But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light, Shone like the moon in water seen by night."

"Black brows they say Become some women best, so that there be not Too much hair there, but in a semicircle Or a half-moon made with a pen."

"I don't know why, those tear-filled eyes felt very familiar to me."

"I can read and see the words that you have confined behind the wall of your lips in the expression on your face and in the gaze of your eyes."

"Whether you want, to break free or connect, it's your choice. But with great courage, I locked my eyes with yours."

"When you look into eyes, forget about romance, creation, and the windows into the soul. With their molecules, genes, and tissues derived from microbes, jellyfish, worms, and flies, you see an entire menagerie."

"The sight of you is good for sore eyes."

"Her eyes are homes of silent prayer."

"Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?"

"Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies."

"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."

"There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work us harm."

"Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent."

"The love light in her eye."

"In her eyes a thought Grew sweet and sweeter, deepening like the dawn— A mystical forewarning!"

"A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,— Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one."

"Not in mine eyes alone is Paradise."

"Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed."

"When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine."

"His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay."

"I saw the eye crying so I asked her so when the crying water is a friend and she said “No Ali Habib, and she said,“ No I will answer me."

"There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth."

"Dark eyes adventure bring; the blue serene Do promise Paradise: and yours are green."

"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun."

"The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet."

"The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde."

"Her eye (I'm very fond of handsome eyes) Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole."

"With eyes that look'd into the very soul— * * * * * * Bright—and as black and burning as a coal."

"In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing."

"Jehovah is in his holy temple. Jehovah’s throne is in the heavens. His own eyes see, his watchful eyes examine the sons of men."

"Turn my eyes away from worthless things."

"And I have known the eyes already, known them all—"

"The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants."

"Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one."

"The concupiscence of the eyes touches the soul at a higher level than that of the flesh, and is consequently even more subtle and dangerous."

"The eyes have one language everywhere."

"For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world."