When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all of her clothes.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker uses a poetic metaphor to describe intense intimacy through a physical gesture.
- In plain terms
- Lifting her eyelids feels as revealing as undressing.
- What can you take from it?
- Small gestures can imply deep intimacy.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What small gesture reveals deep feeling?
- How do you see intimacy?
Another view
Metaphors are subjective and may not fit all contexts.
More from Camilla Collett
The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.
Permalink to quote #1
Related quotes
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
Paul EluardPaul Eluard quote #1 Come again: sweet love doth now invite, Thy graces that refrain, To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest …
John DowlandJohn Dowland quote #2 She with her eyes my heart does bind, She with her voice might captivate my mind.
Andrew MarvellAndrew Marvell quote #3