Anne Sexton Quotes

The eye is the jewel of the body.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

The subject we talk of is the eye of England: if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavor to take them off; he would be a strange oculist, who should pull out the eye.”

The whole of this talk about America being more devoted to money than Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, or any other nation is nonsense.

At times, I can be a slave to money.

Your eyes are very important as a professional footballer.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.