Quotes About Senses

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

What we touch with our fingers is false. What we feel through our perceptions is real. What we see through our eyes is an illusion, but what we see through our heart is real.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.