Quotations About / On: MIRROR

  • 41.
    Aunt,
    how can I tell him,
    with my heart about to burst?
    Like an image on a mirror,
    my pain will not enter him.
    (Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.), South Indian king, Prkrit poet. translated from The Gthsaptaat of Stavhana Hla by Martha Ann Selby, vs. 204, Nir.N»aya Sgara Press (1889).)
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  • 42.
    Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking,
    In need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware,
    Keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
    (Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925), U.S. poet, educator. Pro Femina, Knock upon Silence (1963).)
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  • 43.
    I have had no other treasure in this world than to see you once perfect and complete, as much in virtue, honesty and wisdom, as in all free and honest learning, and so leave you after my death like a mirror representing my person—your father—if not as excellent in fact as I would wish, certainly so in desire.
    (François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Gargantua to Pantagruel, in Pantagruel, ch. 8, p. 243, Pleiade edition (1995).)
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  • 44.
    The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
    (Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet. My Heart Laid Bare, Intimate Journals, sct. 27 (1887), trans. by Christopher Isherwood (1930), rev. Don Bachardy (1989).)
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  • 45.
    Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.
    (Marjorie Rosen (b. 1942), U.S. film critic. Popcorn Venus, preface (1973).)
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  • 46.
    She left the web, she left the loom,
    She made three paces through the room,
    She saw the water-lily bloom,
    She saw the helmet and the plume,
    She looked down to Camelot.
    Out flew the web and floated wide;
    The mirror cracked from side to side;
    "The curse is come upon me," cried
    The Lady of Shalott.
    (Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. The Lady of Shalott, pt. 3, st. 5 (1832, rev. 1842). The Lady of Shalott defies the injunction not to gaze upon the world unless through a mirror, as Lancelot passes.)
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  • 47.
    No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavouring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.
    (Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter," Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 1 (1839, first published 1827).)
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  • 48.
    That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up—you think! I'll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, trying to look tough!... You scum!
    (Richard Brooks (1912-1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906-1987). James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), Key Largo, to the gunsel Toots (1948).)
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  • 49.
    In a true piece of Wit all things must be,
    Yet all things there agree,
    As in the ark, joined without force or strife,
    All creatures dwelt: all creatures that had life;
    Or as the primitive forms of all
    (If we compare great things with small)
    Which without discord or confusion lie
    In that strange mirror of the Deity.
    (Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British poet. Ode: Of Wit (l. 57-64). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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  • 50.
    Glance in the mirror, and you see a person who doesn't "look like a grandparent." But listen to your inner urges and you will find that your "grandparent hunger," your biological need to be a grandparent and to do the best job possible in that vital role, is as insistent as it has been for all people in all places and in all times.
    (Arthur Kornhaber (20th century), U.S. child psychiatrist. Grandparent Power, afterword (1994).)
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