Quotes by Veils A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White veils poetry doe A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White veils poetry doe The reproduction of Edgar Allan Poe perceive veils soul The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton veils faces hands Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind. Edwin Arnold veils eye mind Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. Edwin Percy Whipple dignity veils real Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand. Edward Abbey seven veils artist Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. Elie Wiesel veils events moments The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception. Emma Restall Orr veils perception ideas A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies. Emily Dickinson peers veils wish My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty veils passion fall Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. Evelyn Waugh childhood veils phrases I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way. Florence Welch irony veils way In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. Francis Thompson wells veils ill However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out. Francois de La Rochefoucauld veils passion may Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. Friedrich Schiller veils sun needs Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness. George Henry Lewes inquiry veils regret Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. Godfrey Higgins inquiry veils language Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. Friedrich Nietzsche illusion veils action I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil. Harold B. Lee veils struggle may «12345678910»