Delight Quote by Emily Bronte

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the…

— Timothy Keller

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light,…

— William Law

Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the…

— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a…

— Kate Bush

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love…

— Alfred de Musset

“You must know, my loved one, that there are beings in the elements which almost appear like mortals, and which rarely allow themselves to…

— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

— Walter Savage Landor

In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting…

— William Wordsworth

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen…

— Bret Harte

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could…

— George MacDonald

I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of…

— John Keats