The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
“He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are… — Eric Horvitz Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“There’s a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they’re in control. They… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“the rapture — is just for Christ’s ‘church universal’; in other words, those who belong to Him, regardless of denomination, church attendance,… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“The G.R. wasn’t big on spelling out its creed; it had no priests or ministers, no scripture, and no formal system of… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
