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When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.