“Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart”

“Close your eyes, and see the skies are falling.”

Josh Homme (1973) American musician

“What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

“To shut your eyes is to travel.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“Shut your eyes and see.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

“Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes
Which starlike sparkle in their skies;
Nor be you proud that you can see
All hearts your captives, yours yet free”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

“Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes,
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist