
“I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.”
Source: The Color Purple
Amor, leggan pur gli altri
Le Socratiche carte,
Ch'io in due begl'occhi apprenderò quest'arte.
Act II, Chorus.
Aminta (1573)
Amor, leggan pur gli altri Le Socratiche carte, Ch'io in due begl'occhi apprenderò quest'arte.
Aminta (1573)
“I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.”
Source: The Color Purple
A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan https://www.google.com/books/edition/Writings_and_Speeches/ausHAAAAMAAJ?hl=en, Nachiketa Publications (1972), p. 160.
Variant: "India is a beautiful bride and Hindus and Muslims are her two eyes. If one of them is lost, this beautiful bride will become ugly." Quoted in Shirali, Aresh (10 August 2017). "The Enigma of Aligarh" https://openthemagazine.com/freedom-issue-2017/freedom-issue-2017-dispatches-from-history/the-enigma-of-aligarh/. Open Magazine.
Melancholia http://www.sonnets.org/bridges.htm, st. 2.
Poetry
“Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
We opened the Indica gallery with John Dunbar, Peter Asher and people like that. I heard about people like John Cage, and that he’d just performed a piece of music called 4’33” (which is completely silent) during which if someone in the audience coughed he would say, ‘See?’ Or someone would boo and he’d say, ‘See? It’s not silence—it’s music.’ I was intrigued by all of that. So these things started to be part of my life. I was listening to Stockhausen; one piece was all little plink-plonks and interesting ideas. Perhaps our audience wouldn’t mind a bit of change, we thought, and anyway, tough if they do! We only ever followed our own noses—most of the time, anyway. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was one example of developing an idea.
The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 212
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”