Glance

Famous quotes containing the word glance:

    Such thought such though have I that hold it tight
    Till meditation master all its parts,
    Nothing can stay my glance
    Until that glance run in the world’s despite
    To where the damned have howled away their hearts,
    And where the blessed dance....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,—as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)