There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we ...
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Dallas popped his jaw. “I do not cackle. I bitch like a he-man.
There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.
I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you ...
Tal vez fui demasiado cuidadoso, demasiado protector, pero no podía soportar la idea de causarte dolor.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
And one bad mistake which is called love.. Can drive you insane till rapture..
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar
Problem was, he couldn’t masturbate his sexual desires away because he’d fry off his cock." Hector
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.