A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman

We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.