<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538786" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eyes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the only parts of the body the same <br>size at birth as they'll always be. <br>'That's why all babies are beautiful,' <br>Thurber used to say as he grew <br>blind -- not dark, he'd go on <br>to explain, but floating in a pale <br>light always, a kind of candlelit <br>murk from a sourceless light. <br>He needed dark to see: <br>for a while he drew on black <br>paper with white pastel chalk <br>but it grew worse. Light bored <br>into his eyes but where did it go? <br>Into a sea of phosphenes, <br>along the wet fuse of some dead <br>nerve, it hid everywhere and couldn't <br>be found. I've used up <br>three guesses, all of them <br>right. It's like scuba diving, going down <br>into the black cone-tip that dives <br>farther than I can, though I dive <br>closer all the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Matthews">William Matthews</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538786" data-title="Eyes de William Matthews" data-description="the only parts of the body the same size at birth as they'll always be. 'That's why all babies are beautiful,' Thurber used to say as he grew blind -- not dark, he'd go on to explain, but floating in a pale light always, a kind of candlelit ..."></div> </div> </div>

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