Narada Bhakti Sutras (2001)
Context: A million words cannot express what a glance can convey, and a million glances cannot express what a moment of silence can. A moment of silence conveys so much more than any other expression. Still, love is beyond silence too. You can describe silence to some extent, but that which is beyond silence cannot be expressed. You give, you hug... but still something remains unexpressed.
“A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign.”
The Shield of Achilles (1952)
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W. H. Auden 122
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“A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Dark Eyes
Variant: All I see are dark eyes.
Quoted by K.Mather, Heredity 30, 89–91, 1973.
Since 1960s
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