Delight Quotes - Page 10

• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Criticism, Firsts

  John Dryden (1995). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Art, Pain

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Portable Conrad”, p.48, Penguin

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• Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

  Stephanie Mills

  Heart, Despair, Desperation

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.205, Island Press

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• I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

  Oliver Sacks

  Health, Patient, Painting

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• In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

  Homer

  Sight, Soul, Poverty

  Homer (1854). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.282

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

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• 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.

  Alice Meynell

  Sleep, White, Sheep

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Dark, Appreciate

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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• He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Joy, Would Be

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• O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Dream, Stars, Moon

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.249

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• Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

  William Cowper

  Home, Long, Wish

  William Cowper (1825). “Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq”, p.49

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• So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

  Philip Johnson

  Anything Goes, Form, Pure

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• I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment

  Rafael Nadal

  Way, Moments, Delighted

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• Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

  Max Muller

  Desire, Satisfaction, Pleasure

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.146, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Children, Innocence

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• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Sweet, Voice

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• When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed by the sun, fanned by the breeze, charmed by the manifold delights of nature.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spring, Looks, Sun

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• Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Night, Light

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• 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.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Enchantment, Veils

  Emily Dickinson, “The Last Of Summer Is Delight”

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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational

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• Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Wise, Sweet

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.48

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• The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Perfect, Profound

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• The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Miracle

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