What is stare?

Famous quotes containing the word stare:

    A blind man. I can stare at him
    ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
    No, he is in a great solitude.
    O, strange joy,
    to gaze my fill at a stranger’s face.
    No, my thirst is greater than before.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    —the children’s eyes
    In momentary wonder stare upon
    A sixty-year-old smiling public man.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Lift up our eyes to you?
    no, God, we stare and stare,
    upon a nearer thing
    that greets us here,
    Death, violent and near.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)