Delight Quote by Robert Penn Warren Download Open image “Tell me a story of deep delight.” — Robert Penn Warren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delight Joy Stories Storytelling
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell me a… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as arguing with delight. Like seeing a pretty girl with the sunlight in her hair, like pancakes and hot… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
“In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image