Rapt Quotes
28 quotes by 23 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
— Jack Woodford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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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: