Quotations About / On: JOY

  • 41.
    Don't forget the Dance Halls
    Warwick and Savoy,
    Where he picked his women, where
    He drank his liquid joy.
    (Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery.")
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  • 42.
    Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language.
    (Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. originally published in "Die Neue Rundschau" 23, Oct. and Nov. 1912. Death in Venice, ch. 4, p. 236, trans. by David Luke, Bantam Classic (1988). Gustav Aschenbach's (the novella's main protagonist) rapture to write in view of his idol Tadzio.)
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  • 43.
    Now no joy but lacks salt
    That is not dashed with pain
    And weariness and fault;
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. To Earthward (l. 17-19). . . The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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  • 44.
    The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
    (Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. originally published in "Die Neue Rundschau" 23, Oct. and Nov. 1912. Death in Venice, ch. 4, p. 235, trans. by David Luke, Bantam Classic (1988).)
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  • 45.
    Of the dark past
    A child is born
    With joy and grief
    My heart is torn
    (James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer. Ecce Puer (l. 1-4). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 46.
    Almanacked, their names live; they
    Have slipped their names, and stand at ease,
    Or gallop for what must be joy,
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. At Grass (l. 24-26). . . Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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  • 47.
    The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Friendship," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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  • 48.
    Of her alone to have a sight,
    Which is my joy and heart's delight.
    (Robert Wever (fl. C. 1550), British poet. Lusty Juventus (l. 10-11). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 49.
    The land of joy, the lovely glades of the fortunate woods and the home of the blest.
    (Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Aeneid, bk. 6, l. 638 (19 B.C.), trans. by David West (1991). Referring to the Elysian Fields, a stop on Aeneas's journey to the Underworld.)
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  • 50.
    we Reap in joy the fruit
    Which we in bitter tears did sow.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Mental Traveller (l. 7-8). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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