Rapt Quotes

28 quotes by 23 authors

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that… — Eric Hiscock
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees… — Walter de La Mare
Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get… — Dorianne Laux
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing… — Albert Einstein
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. — Jack Woodford
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from… — Henry David Thoreau
You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for… — Josh Duhamel
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. — Carol Leifer
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds,… — Euripides
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a… — Isaac D'Israeli
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it… — William Wordsworth
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where… — Herman Melville
He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject… — Emily Bronte
My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I… — Wendy Mass
And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. — John Milton

Who Wrote These Rapt Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 28 Rapt Quotes as follows: