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joyful pleasant thankful
Common Prayer A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful
joyful music perceived sad solidarity songs
J. Tillman With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
joyfully lawn start wearing weeping
Meg Stuart We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.
joyful reason enjoy
Marianne Williamson The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.
joyful men poet
William Channing Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see
joyfulness marvelous participants
James Broughton We are all participants in the marvelous.
joyful whole activity
Martha Beck To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
joyful my-family
Mitt Romney There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
poetry should
Charles Dickens Why then we should drop into poetry.
poet negotiation range
Edward Hirsch Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.
poetry essentials needs
Edward Hirsch Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
poet reader great-poet
Edward Hirsch There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
poetry use would-be
Edith Sitwell it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
poetic invisible feels
Diablo Cody Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
poet represent size sound thus universal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal
poet true
Eugenio Montale The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.
poet invention conscious
C. S. Lewis Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.