“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”

— Wallace Stevens

Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia

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American poet 1879–1955

Gerald M. Weinberg (1933–2018) American computer scientist

Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 52

“Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.”

William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter

The Artist and His Mirror, W. Baziotes, in Right Angle Vol. III, no. 2, Washington DC, June 1949
1940s

“There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.”

Donald Miller (1971) American writer

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

“A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.”

Mortimer Collins (1827–1876) British writer

The Unknown Quantity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Look for the woman!”

Alexandre Dumas book Los mohicanos de París

Cherchez la femme, pardieu! cherchez la femme!
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Les Mohicans de Paris, http://www.archive.org/details/lesmohicansdepa02dumagoog, 2009-08-07, I, 1871, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 232]
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1854 novel)

“A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find.”

Trent Lott (1941) United States Senator from Mississippi

On Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice.
2000s

“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.”

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist

Leonard Bernstein, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”

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