The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.[L’ochio, che si parte dal bianco alluminato dal sole e va in loco di minor luce, ogni cosa li parra tenebrosa.]
The eye – which sees all objects reversed – retains the images for some time.[La luce operado nel vedere le cose cóuerse alquàto le spetie di quelle ritiene.]
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
One sees clealy only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.[translation by Richard Howard]It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.[translation by Katherine Woods][On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]
One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
No man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Her eyes are like two open books and I suddenly want to devour every page.
