Saul Leiter Quotes

Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.

Hidden nature is secret God.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.

Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.