“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.” WorldNeedsMeanDoeStillsReasonWholeUseLyingPurposeOrderNaturalWalksCreationLessonsGoodnessRemainsWineEnvironmentalDelightSomewhere ElsePietyMushrooms Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.” SleepWhiteWalksDelightHeightSheepFoldsFlocksSteep Book:Selected Poems of Alice Meynell Source: Selected Poems of Alice Meynell
“The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.” LastsWalksSummerDelightReviewsEcstasyMailVeilsCelestialEnchantmentRetrospectNamelessAudaciousSyndicate Author:Emily Dickinson
“Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.” DarkSpaceWalksShiningDelightGraves Book:Complete Poems Source: Complete Poems
“When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.” ThinkingMenWorldKindEndsWholeDesireCan DoWalksInterestingSecretWorryActivityMen And WomenDelightActiveIntimacyInwardAffirmationDigestionDead EndsPromiscuousActive Life Author:Walter Lippmann
“Through prayer you can gather the riches of heaven and bring them down to earth...you can delight in the beauty of heaven and carry it in your heart...you can enjoy the fellowship of heaven and walk in it throughout the day.” HeartEarthHeavenEnjoyPrayerWalksDelightRichesFellowshipDown To Earth Author:Roy Lessin
“Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning.” WayHardWalksPowerfulBreakRocksGoldBlowDelightMidstLightningHard Rock Author:Horace
“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who enjoy bird walks enjoys theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new 'attempt,' differs from the last and takes him into new country. This delights him. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingPersonsSelfCountryHappensLastsBeliefEnjoyInterestWalksBirdFellowsDelightEssaysSelf CenteredLiberatedStaminaEssayistsExcursions Book:Essays of E. B. White Source: Essays of E. B. White