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French Post-Impressionist artist 1848–1903Related quotes
“I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut”
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
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“My eyes make pictures when they are shut.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
A Day-Dream
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
G. K. Chesterton book Tremendous Trifles
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Context: For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever.
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) <br class="br">Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. <br class="br">Source: The Bell Jar
“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”
Keariene Muizz (1977) American artist
Associated Press (2008); from an interview conducted by John Rogers.
“Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart”
Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter
"If You Can't Sleep".
Volume Two (2010)
“Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
Canto III, line 117.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)