“Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.” StillsEyeSpiritNightStarsTreeLove YouArmsHolyRainGoldSellsDelightScentCurvesLovelinessPine Trees Book:Love Songs Source: Love Songs
“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.” IfsHumansSoulEarthMovingSpiritAnimalWonderTreeFiguresPaintingFlowerDelightPainterHillsLandscapeLimbsFullnessHuman SoulPetalsFigure Painting Book:Works Source: Works
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.” MenAgeEarthSpiritStrongStarsSpaceMysteryChangedMoonWasteGlorySilentDelightWideAttractionAwfulCharmSunsetWildernessMelancholySunriseEverlastingSplendorRough TimesHardyWanderersSunrise And Sunset Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.” ThinkingMindDoneUseCareLastsSpiritSportsClearHairFameFairsRaisesBlindTradeDelightNobleShadeBootsMuseAlasScornFuryShepherdsSpursInfirmitySpunSlitsHomelyThanklessSlightedShears Author:John Milton
“What is precious is never to forget, The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs, Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother, With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.” WorldLightEarthSpiritSimpleForgetPleasureMorningBloodRocksDemandSpringAncientDelightDenyGravesNoiseEveningTrafficFogFloweringMorning Light Author:Stephen Spender
“[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.” IfsThinkingFeelsMindSpiritEasyWonderGardenDelightGardeningSanctuary Author:Diane Ackerman
“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.” SoulEyeSpiritualSpiritPiecesCreaturesDrawsSightDelightExcitedEthicalLooking GoodCrudeSceneryNutrients Author:Barbara Holland
“It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.” WorldStillsSpiritAirFlowerEternalSpringDelightEndlessVarietyDevelopingToneFadesProphecyMultiplicityGladnessHappy DayBlessedness Author:Novalis
“One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.” MenWorldMeanLightJoySpiritUniverseVirtueGracePoetAimDelightLovelyObligationTraitsShedRoyalCheerfulnessSparkleHilarity Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your spirit. Surrender to them! Let your heart be broken! Only then will you know the tender thrill of their wild companionship. The Good Thief is pure delight. When you wake from this dream, you will wake bedazzled” KnowsWritingHeartDreamSpiritBreakGraceBrokenPureDelightInsightSurrenderStealingYour DreamsThievesTribesCompanionshipThrillUncommonOutcastQuirkyStunning Author:Melanie Rae Thon