Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
Jorge Luis Borges

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes De Mille

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell