Annie Dillard Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Yellow, Brain

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.65, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Sorry, Pain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.103, Canongate Books

• After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

• Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Walking Away, World

• Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Eye, Water

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.18, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

• I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Trying, Soil

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.19, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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