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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Delight,

"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

Delight, Grief, Words

"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."

Dick Gregory, American Comedian

Delight, Loss, Possession

"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."

Ben Jonson, English Poet

Delight, Mind, Punishment, Vice

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Delight, Expectation, Profit

"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."

Joe Shuster, Canadian Artist

Delight, First

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Delight, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman

Delight,

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro, American Author

Delight, Laughter

"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Delight, Merit, Thinking, World

Explore more quotes by Edmund Spenser

"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."

Mind

"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."

Relationship

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

Death

"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."

Stars

"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."

Gold

"I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason."

Time

"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

Death

"And all for love, and nothing for reward."

Love

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Delight