4 Quotes by Edith Wharton about eye

  • Author Edith Wharton
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    It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

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  • Author Edith Wharton
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    Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.

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  • Author Edith Wharton
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    The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

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