“And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!”
William S. Gilbert
“Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,For in this rapture I shall surely speakThe thing I shall repent.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.”
Edmund Waller
“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
“True is the Lord and Master, and True is His Name, His Gracious Glance brings rapture. Those who are separated from their Beloved Husband Lord weep and wail, but my True Husband Lord is always with me.”
Guru Nanak
“The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
