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looking for joy, some joy
not to be known outside it
two by two in the ark of
the ache of it.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. The Ache of Marriage (l. 10-13). . .
Poems 1960-1967 [Denise Levertov]. (1983) New Directions.)
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looking for joy, some joy
not to be known outside it
two by two in the ark of
the ache of it.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Ache of Marriage.")
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Joy, shipmate, joy!
(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (L. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 3, sc. 3, l. 173-4.
On leaving Friar Lawrence to go to Juliet.)
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The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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Joy, gentle friends, joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Theseus, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc. 1, l. 29-30.
Addressing the reconciled lovers.)
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How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 1, sc. 1, l. 27-9.
On Claudio's uncle, who weeps for joy that his nephew is safe.)
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Yea, worse than death: death parts both woe and joy:
From joy I part, still living in annoy.
(Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Certain Sonnets: A Farewell (l. 13-14). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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Surely joy is the condition of life.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Natural History of Massachusetts" (1842), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 106, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
A declaration inspired by Thoreau's contemplation of the sheer variety and liveliness of creatures in nature.)
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc. 1, l. 306.
Unable to express his happiness on being offered Hero in marriage.)
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