“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>It must be visible or invisible,
Invisible or visible or both:
A seeing and unseeing in the eye.The weather and the giant of the weather,
Say the weather, the mere weather, the mere air:
An abstraction blooded, as a man by thought.</p
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Variant translations: Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Le Petit Prince (1943)
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Alternating Current (1967)
“Colour is the touch of the eye,
Music to the deaf,
A word out of darkness.”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Unsourced in The Philosophy of Mark Twain: The Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Genius (2014) by David Graham
Disputed
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) Italian artist
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p . 232
1908 - 1920, On Mystery and Creation, Paris 1913