The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy. — Clive Bell 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
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Behold, for deep within your eyes, no man has felt the rapture of your warmth¦ but I only. — Gillis Triplett Copy Share Image
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“What is keeping you from feeling the rapture? I can assure you, you won’t find the answer in a lighted room. What… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Are you ready for the rapture of the church Are you ready for Heaven Our Lord Jesus Christ now wants all Christians… — Doris Ijeoma Basil Copy Share Image
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi 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
“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
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“ Rapture I can feel she has got out of bed. That means it is seven a.m. I have been lying with… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again. — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb” — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
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