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"Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit."
"Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain."
"I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more."
"I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen."
"Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe."
"It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them."
"Jack wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. He whispered in her ear. “He’s not getting near you again, baby, I promise. No one’s laying a finger on you ever again."
"God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening."
"Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear."
"A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged."
"On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar."
"profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
"If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable."
"What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."
