“The eye always fills in the imperfections.”

“Parting hugs and kisses filled their eyes. But misgivings remained in many a heart.”

“A slow autumn rain:
The sad eyes of my mother
Fill a lonely night.”

“… and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“In the empty eyes of this child, he’d seen the withering of his own soul. The reflection had been unblemished, with no imperfections to challenge the truth of what he saw.”

“Ugliness in poetry they may find clever and interesting. But it is only beauty that "snatches the breath and fills the eyes with tears."”

“Your eyes were filled with love, Kate Vane;
Ah, would that we were young again!”

“Blue hyacinths!
Oh, do not show them me; they fill my eyes
With tears too soft for such a scene as this.”

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”

“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.”