“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: Pope sends message as new Cathedral blessed in Madagascar https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-05/pope-francis-blesses-new-cathedral-saint-joseph-madagascar.html (1 May 2021)
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
“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
“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
Jodie Marsh (1978) English glamour model and television personality
Interview in The Guardian, 25 January 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/25/broadcasting.bigbrother
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" (undated poem, c. March - April 1877)
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Emilio Insolera (1979) Actor and film producer
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
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)