Blind

Famous quotes containing the word blind:

    “The last faint spark
    In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
    dark,
    The wounds of the baited bear,—
    The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
    On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    “A dreamlike feebleness by which the blind race of man is hampered.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “So unrecorded did it slip away,
    So blind was I to see and to foresee,
    So dull to mark the budding of my tree
    That would not blossom yet for many a May.
    If only I could recollect it, such
    A day of days! I let it come and go
    As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow;
    It seemed to mean so little, meant so much;
    If only now I could recall that touch,
    First touch of hand in hand—Did one but know!”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)