To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is concerned to know something that may be entertaining even delightful but is certainly inessential.
Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but if this War should continue I wish to have the most active part in it.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Ah reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights and maybe pitfalls too.
As we moved along in a little procession I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps and they burned until morning my father said and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day a fresh try one more start with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.