Quote#Sadness
Eyes are Vocal, Tears have Tongues
Quote byRichard Crashaw · 1612–1649
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Upon the Death of a Gentleman.
English (original)
Eyes are Vocal, Tears have Tongues, And there be words not made with Lungs
— Richard Crashaw
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Let hearts and lippes speak lowd; and say Hail, door of life: and sourse of day! The door was shutt, the fountain seal'd; Yet Light was seen and Life reveald. The door was shutt, yet let in day, The fountain seald, yet life found way.
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The conscious water saw its God and blushed.