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Exlpore more Delight quotes
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
Explore more quotes by Paul Engle
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
"But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found."
"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."
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