Poetry is always slightly mysterious and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry is a sword of lightning ever unsheathed which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.
I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
Men may yearn for peace cry for peace and work for peace but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful.
Most people go I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
Religion brings to man an inner strength spiritual light and ineffable peace.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness war and peace rise and fall only that person has truly experienced life.
Those who have experienced the most have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
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.
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
When I get recognized for 'Twilight ' it's usually a teenage girl and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.
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.
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
The stars that nature hung in heaven and filled their lamps with everlasting oil give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye looking on finds its own.
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.
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
A light wind swept over the corn and all nature laughed in the sunshine.