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“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”

Way Soul Eye Earth Joy Poetry Tears Evidence Witness Paradise Melancholy Nerves Excess Imperfect Disposition Delay Glimpse Exquisite Tombs Splendor Imperfect Things

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.”

Needs Girl Actors Fun Majors Mad Dancing Glimpse Respectful Cautious Perks Be Cautious

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they've concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide, and some people think I'm showing them the whole room. But all they're getting is a glimpse. That's all I want to show most people.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs I Can Real Whole Shows Rooms Doors One Thing Presses Wide Myth Bunch Surround Glimpse

Author:Pete Wentz

“The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.”

Shows Objects Opposites Glances Glimpse

Author:James Elkins

“In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.”

Looks Littles Care Realizing Future Like Me Witness I Care Glimpse Relieved

Book:Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

Source: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

“Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.”

Littles Anxiety Torture Flaws Worth It Glimpse Finishing

Author:Jacob Collins

“Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.”

Emotion Horror Infinite Ecstasy Glimpse Disclosure

Author:Kirk J. Schneider

“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

Humans Art Real Moments Character Lying Human Beings Darkness Lovely Decent Suspects Glimpse Twisted Affirming Life Affirming

Author:Martin McDonagh

“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”

World Way Ideas Matter Whole Law Universe Force Rooms Results Movement Aspect Harmony Caught Disappear Conception Host Glimpse Governing Equilibrium Fourier

Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.”

World Doe Art Lying White This World Masters Truth Is Scared Telling The Truth Glimpse Great Art Cunning Woodland Lies Truth

Book:Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

“The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.”

Firsts Light Sweet Fame Dawn Glimpse

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.”

Soul Whole Winning Wind Thousand Glimpse Mirroring

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.”

Literature Democracy Tendencies Satisfying Slips Glimpse Hints Perplexed

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.”

Men World Mind May Children Stars Dark Strange Presses Impulse Sensitive Dimensions Globes Glimpse Hereditary Beyond The Stars Moonstruck

Book:At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition

Source: At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition

“One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.”

World Two Whole Moments Three Magic One Thing Objects Seeking Dimensions Fourth Canvas Glimpse

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.”

Ifs Heart Reality Eye Behinds Mistake Half Imagine Projects Beats Manage Realising Imagine That Flash Glimpse Afar Heart Beat

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove

“Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164”

Mean Eternal Primaries Addresses Glimpse

Author:Martin Buber

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.”

Would Be Mother Given Hell Forever Taken Glimpse

Author:Glen Duncan

“What he [Michael Jackson] did was he allowed us, through his voice and his instrument, to see a glimpse of the heaven that he himself was denied. That sacrifice was the ultimate source of redemption that he gave to us.”

Heaven Voice Sacrifice Source Ultimate Instruments Redemption Denied Glimpse

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.”

Mind Long Ideas Night House Rooms Cities Streets New York Particular Painting Long Time Impression Squares Interiors Glimpse Synthesis City Streets Streets At Night

Author:Edward Hopper

“Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!”

Men Feels Firsts Would Be Color He Man Spring Ears Breaths Notes Brilliant Gentle Dull Thrill Glimpse Awakened Orchard

Book:Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”

Knows Death Secret Knowing Doors Listening Surface Mediums Tension Gossip Glimpse Toilets Crude Rumours Untrustworthy Membranes Reverberation

Author:China Mieville

“The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.”

Men Evil Lost Tree Depends Return Morality Pure Ethics Garden Fruit Realms Paradise Good And Evil Glimpse Veils Eden Homecoming Garden Of Eden Tree Of Knowledge

Author:John Carroll

“When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.”

Persons Body Faces Turns Lost Sides Forever Streets Walking Shapes Committed Corners Disappear Senses Shoulders Instant Going Away Gestures Glimpse Away From You

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.”

Appearance Glimpse

Author:Anaxagoras

“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.”

Knows Years Sometimes Young Dies Grows Loses Aging Ignorant Grandfather Glimpse Ponds Midsummer

Book:The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Earth Joy Ocean Importance Atmosphere Glimpse Majesty Beam Microbes

Author:Sylvia Earle

“To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight. Michael's book 'Moonwalk', provides a startling glimpse of the artist at work and the artist in reflection.”

People Men Book Seems Artist Personality Reflection Insight Warm Sensitive Glimpse Elusive Sensitive Man

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.”

Littles Doe Sometimes Whole Past Turns Destiny Fate Minutes Awful Wheels Delay Glimpse Machinery Our Destiny Turn-on

Book:Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc

Source: Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc

“Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.”

Seems Blood Flower Drug Flesh Sunset Mexico Shells Scent Glimpse Silk Venus Iridescent Acapulco

Author:Anais Nin

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.”

Seems Remember Dark Childhood Accounts Bigger Plant Your Children My Time Marvelous Glimpse Cupboards Remembers Everything

Book:KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.”

Ifs Happiness Lays Fingers Disappear Stealing Features Glimpse Pulse

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.”