“I can feel you, even though I can't see you.”
Nancy Holder (1953) American writer
Source: Wicked: Witch & Curse
Source: Every Day
“I can feel you, even though I can't see you.”
Nancy Holder (1953) American writer
Source: Wicked: Witch & Curse
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"The Moon was Red (an original Ysabella Brave!)" (16 June 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjoQQD5XtKA
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter to Malcolm Cowley (17 October 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“Even sight heightened to become all-seeing
will do you no good without a sense of taking part.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Conversation with a Stone".
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Context: No other sense can make up for your missing sense of taking part.
Even sight heightened to become all-seeing
will do you no good without a sense of taking part.
You shall not enter, you have only a sense of what the sense should be,
only its seed, imagination.
“What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Bk. II, ch. 1.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Attributed to Strauss at many sites on the internet, this is actually Norman Maclean, in A River Runs Through It (1976)
Misattributed