WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:14:48 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg blinding – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shakespeare, William -- Merchant of Venice, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 37ff (2.6.37-38) (1597) https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/74997/ https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/74997/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:26:49 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74997 JESSICA: But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.


William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Merchant of Venice, Act 2, sc. 6, l. 37ff (2.6.37-38) (1597)

One of several times Shakespeare used the phrase, "Love is blind." He popularized it, but it was first used by Chaucer around 1404 in "The Merchant's Tale" ("For loue is blynd alday ..."). ]]> https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/74997/feed/ 0 74997 Millay, Edna St. Vincent -- “When I too long have looked upon your face,” ll. 5-8, Second April, Sonnet 7 (1921) https://wist.info/millay-edna-st-vincent/65447/ https://wist.info/millay-edna-st-vincent/65447/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:16:52 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=65447 I turn away reluctant from your light,
And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.


Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
“When I too long have looked upon your face,” ll. 5-8, Second April, Sonnet 7 (1921) ]]> https://wist.info/millay-edna-st-vincent/65447/feed/ 0 65447