“It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.”

— Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday

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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
Voces (1943)

“MUSEUM
They came, they looked, they walked
their eyes wide open
they didn’t see
because their minds were closed

Their eyes wide open
they didn’t know they couldn’t see
because their minds were closed;
so they looked, and left.”

Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“With open eyes, you watch; with closed eyes, you see.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“A Book,” p. p. 92
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Nostalgic Elements”

“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