Belief

"How wisely Nature did decree
With the same eye to weep and see!
That having viewed the object vain,
We might be ready to complain
[...]
Open then, mine eyes, your double sluice,
And practise so your noblest use;
For others too can see, or sleep
But only human eyes can weep.
[...]
Thus let your streams o'verflow your springs,
Till eyes and tears be the same things:
And each the other's difference bears;
These weeping eyes, those seeing tears."*

- Tears that see...Do you believe?

- I don't know, one has to believe. ...


(Jacques Derrida: Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and other Ruins)

*Andrew Marvell: Eyes and Tears