Context: I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What!" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea!" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.
A Vision of the Last Judgment
“Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for”
“I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.”
“I looked, and I beheld the shade of him
Who made through cowardice the great refusal.”
Canto III, lines 59–60 (tr. Longfellow).
The decision of Pope Celestine V to abdicate the Papacy and allow Dante's enemy, Pope Boniface VIII, to gain power.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“It was through looking at churches that I came to believe in the reason churches were built.”
The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)
"Be (Intro)" (Track 1)
Albums, Be (2005)
“I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.”
109
The Kite Runner (2003)
