Famous quotes containing the word blind:
“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, who follows blind instinct, strives to duplicate the reality of nature. The first one elevates art to its highest peak; the second one lowers it to its basest level.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“An underground grower, blind and a common brown;
Got a misshapen look, its nudged where it could;
Simple as soil yet crowded as earth with all.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
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