gaze quotes

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And other its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

- Matthew Arnold
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.67^70.

Lo sguardo dei cani che non capiscono e non sanno che possono aver ragione a non capire. The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand. 185

- Italo Calvino
  Il Barone Rampante, ch.10.

  Bequeath us no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise.

- (Harold) Hart Crane
  White Buildings,'Voyages', pt.2.

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

- Michael Ignatieff
  'Is Nothing Sacred?  The Ethics of  Television', in Daedalus: Journal of the American  Academy of  Arts and Sciences, Fall.

The stars with deep amaze Stand fixed in steadfast gaze.

-John Milton
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 6.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudistnothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin.

- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
  Letter to Corona Macheiner,11 Jun.