Mout Caas

“The gradually growing hegemony of the eye seems to be parallel with the development of Western ego-consciousness and the gradually increasing separation of the self and the world; vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

“He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.”
― Bulfinch, Thomas

“There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.”
― Julian May, Orion Arm

“Here ease and comfort are the legacy,   The round and glowing cheek, the red, ripe mouth,   Here each possesses immortality   In his descendants’ happiness and health.   And thus in pure contentment, cloudless days,   The child grows up and fathers in his turn.   Amazed, we never cease to ask: Are these   High gods descended here or are they men?   Apollo, when he kept sheep, looked completely   The handsome shepherd in both form and face: 9900 Where Nature uninsulted rules serenely,   All worlds commingle, gods and men change place.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two