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“Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland”

“Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .”

Names Pleasure Return Essentials Claims Genuine Greatest Pleasures

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.”

Life Hands Life Is Interest Pleasure Return Demand Treasure Borrowed Shylock

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.”

Ends Pleasure Rooms Journey Return Seeking Variety Cells Cycles Over It Locked Thrill Hunters Spectators Starting Over Sexually Repetitive Promiscuous

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.”

People Way Trying Littles Problem Asks Wish Enjoy Pleasure Animal Company Kindness Like You Return Fit Comfort About Friendship Conditional

Author:Bill Watterson

“living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.”

Self Able Pleasure Return Intellectual Oneself Companion Bad Things Spells Absent Capricious

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.”

Choices Pleasure Return Good Things Very Good Criteria Avoidance

Author:Epicurus

“To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.”

Men May Mean Country Desire Father Pleasure Money Return Abstract Ransom

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”

People Want Reason Pain Young Courses Pleasure Rocks Return Direct Shame Sufficient Quests Splits Sail Vessel Crowded Voyages Steers

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.”

People Looks Pleasure Return Extras Good Humor

Author:Josh Billings

“I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.”

Mind Found Loss Pleasure Heard Danger Return Direct Brave Terror Hopeless Scream Mentor Distress Vessel Extravagant Navigation Wailing Voluptuous Presence Of Mind

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.”

Pleasure Results Effort Beauty Seeing Fashion Missing Return Labor Surface Forfeit

Author:Roderick E. Stevens

“In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.”

Children Today Past Parent Pleasure Economic Return Cost Majors Despite Revolutionary Parenthood American Family Revolutionary Change

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Ifs Way Giving Young Turns Girl Sex Pleasure Attention Boys Careers Return Sexuality Expected Popularity Young Women Career Success

Author:Cris Mazza

“The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.”

Believe Stories Wealth Pleasure Comedy Our Lives Dog Stupid Return Offers Wit Tricks Irony Pet Companionship Consolation Commonplace Fidelity Anecdotes Believe In Love Pleasures Of Life

Author:Marjorie Garber

“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”

Said Today Lying Speak Language Pleasure Laughing Return Bears Tomorrow Lows Fellows Rounds Ill Treated Ease Unusual Contests Vicious Disagreeable Abusive Cato

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”

Mind Pain Pleasure Return Gratitude Benefits Species Revenge Obligation Impatient Inferiority Recompense Exacting Revenge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.”

Giving Literature Pleasure Return Anticipation Incredulity

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.”

Giving Love Is Pleasure Return Fairs True Love Dues Compromise Association Utility True Love Is

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”

“In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!”

Knows World Heart Desire Pleasure Plans Ignorance Return My Heart Wide Enjoyment Disappointed Unsuccessful

Book:THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel