Body Quote by Hanshan

And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across…

— Jack Kerouac

I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had…

— Oscar Wilde

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that…

— Peter Matthiessen

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the…

— Tomas Transtromer

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

— Saint Augustine

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges…

— Irving Howe

Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I…

— Daphne Merkin

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long…

— Victor Hugo

I stood in front of a mountain and was overwhelmed by the beauty and energy; I had goosebumps. I thought, if I could record…

— Vicky Krieps