“The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,For in this rapture I shall surely speakThe thing I shall repent.”
William Shakespeare
“And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!”
William S. Gilbert
“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.”
Edmund Waller
“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”
Clive Bell
““Eyes closed, lost in a rose, my nose finds nirvana. Deep in this silky petaled nest it is no longer a thing on my face. It is the center of the universe.””
Rain Bojangles
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
Charles Edward Montague
