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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and… — Steven Weinberg
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. — Naomi Wolf
Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear… — William Carlos Williams
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. — William Shakespeare
My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour… — Simone de Beauvoir
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real… — Mark Twain
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis
And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. — Lisa Ann Sandell
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an… — Herman Melville
To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. — Anais Nin
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned.… — Eduardo Galeano
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million… — Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true… — J R Ward
Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there. — Janette Rallison
At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally… — William Carlos Williams
Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls… — Patricia McCormick
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of… — Victor Pelevin
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is… — Michael Ondaatje
The rising tide lifts all the boats. — John F. Kennedy
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of… — Thomas Merton
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them… — Robert Musil

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