Delight Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness…

— Gaston Bachelard

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

— William Blake

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

— Rabindranath Tagore

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

— Henry Reed

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts…

— Ovid

“I fell into a restless sleep in which my dreams carried me away over misty valleys and moonlit woodlands toward a fairy glen, where…

— Hazel Gaynor

“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a stop to…

— Aldous Huxley

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I…

— Joan Halifax

“Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That,…

— William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments…

— William Shakespeare

“She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching.…

— Diana Abu-Jaber