Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
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Anaïs Nin 278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
A Christmas Carol, viii
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Bernart de Ventadorn
troubador
Can vei la lauzeta mover
De joi sas alas contra·l rai,
Que s'oblid'e·s laissa chazer
Per la doussor c'al cor li vai,
Ai, tan grans enveya m'en ve
De cui qu'eu veya jauzïon.
"Can vei la lauzeta mover", line 1; translation from James Branch Cabell The Cream of the Jest ([1917] 1972) p. 33.
Paramahansa Yogananda
(1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "Samadhi"
Source: Tortilla Flat
Leonard Cohen
(1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Love Itself"
Ten New Songs (2001)
Context: p>The light came through the window,
Straight from the sun above,
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of Love.In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me.</p
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
Emily Brontë
(1818–1848) English novelist and poet
Louis MacNeice
(1907–1963) poet
"The Streets of Laredo", line 1, from Holes in the Sky (1948)
MacNeice’s poem, a grotesque vision of the London Blitz, is not to be confused with the cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo".
