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Letter "D" » delight
«We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
| Keywords:
believe in, Believe It Or Not, curiosities, curiosity, deep, delight, delighting, experience, Human Touch, inside, listening, reveals, risk, sacred, spirit, spontaneous, touch, trust, valuable, wonder, worth, Worthies, worthiest, worthy
«When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your 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.»
«Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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Dreams
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anxiety, burst, burst upon, dawn, delight, evening, first names, first period, heard, icy, name, on that, period, shiver, shivering, shivers, sweet, Sweet Dreams
«Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Men and Women
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conceit, conceits, dearest, delight, delighting, gratifies, gratify, Hers, into the wind, self, though, winded, with conceit, wound, wounding
«What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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breast, bring to, conferring, confers, confer with, delight, discovery, noblest, pride, swelled, swells, swell up, swollen, walked, walking, with pride
«We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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All My Children, beauty, big, bodied, body, children, delight, delighting, find, For the, happiness, in a big way, makes, My Beauty, The Body, too
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