#Delight Quotes

“In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.”

“Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.”

“There's keen delight in what we have:The rattle of pebbles on the shoreUnder the receding wave.”

“There where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind.”

“A lonely impulse of delight”

“Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.”

“It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.”

“There is no place more delightful than home.”

“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.”

“It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.”

“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”