
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”
Our brain functions as a highly creative ‘camera obscura’ – the forerunner of the modern photographic camera, named from the Latin for dark room.
Amazing Visual Illusions: Trick Your Mind and Feast Your Eyes (2011).
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”
Act IV, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.”
Part II, line 98
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Babe Cristabel, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Dr. Frankenstein Damn your eyes!
Igor (pointing at his lazy eye) Too late!”
Young Frankenstein