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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "Criticism," Poems (1836).)
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The mirror of all Christian kings.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Chorus, in Henry V, act 2, prologue, l. 6.
Praising Henry V as the model for all kings.)
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The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himself in her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.
(Bruno Bettelheim (20th century), Austrian-U.S. child psychologist. A Good Enough Parent, ch. 1 (1987).)
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The mirror-scalθd serpent is multiplicity,
But all that run in couples, on earth, in flood or air, share God that is but three,
And could beget or bear themselves could they but love as He.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "II. Ribh Denounces Patrick.")
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook E," aph. 49, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 274.)
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
(Lauren Bacall (b. 1924), U.S. actor. Daily Mail (London, Nov. 1, 1990).)
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The stars glittered on the snow and nothing answered.
Then the Swan spread her wings, cross of the cold north,
The pattern and mirror of the acts of earth.
(Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. To Christ Our Lord (l. 28-30). . .
Room for Me and a Mountain Lion; Poetry of Open Space. Nancy Larrick, comp. (1974) M. Evans and Company.)
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