Mirrors Quotes — Page 39

Poet, Playwright

“Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.”

Mirrors Beauty Swans

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

“We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.”

Dream Hands Mirrors

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.”

Should Mirrors Errors

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.”

Acting Special Mirrors

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

“Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.”

Science Car Mirrors

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet, Novelist

“Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.”

Hands Water Mirrors

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Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.”

Doe Use Mirrors

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Taylor Swift

Singer, Songwriter

“You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.”

People Mirrors Looking In The Mirror

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Taylor Swift

Singer, Songwriter

“If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.”

Thinking Mirrors Reflection

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Taylor Swift

Singer, Songwriter

“Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.”

Hate Faces Mirrors

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Terence

Philosopher, Poet

“We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.”

Looks Mirrors Example

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.”

Nature Mirrors

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