Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer
Source: The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
“Our vulgar delight in American vulgarity.”
"The New Evangelists" (1980)
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)
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“Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.”
François de Malherbe (1555–1628) (1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator
To Cardinal Richelieu. Longfellow's translation.
“Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!”
Source: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 17 - 24; this was inspired by a eulogy by William Basse, On Shakespeare:
Context: Soul of the age!
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room;
Thou art a monument, without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live,
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
“There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 131).
“Let us put our democratic freedom to delight use!”
Divya S. Iyer (1984) Indian bureaucrat
Source: Quoted in Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/DSIyer/status/764818623068270593
Manmohan Singh (1932) 13th Prime Minister of India
On the popularity of Rajnikanth in Japan, as quoted in "'Dancing Maharaja' Rajnikant is a rage in Japan" http://www.hindustantimes.com/nm20/dancing-maharaja-rajnikant-is-a-rage-in-japan/article1-185499.aspx, Hindustan Times (15 December 2006) <br class="br">2006-2010
“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist
"The Best Idea We Ever Had" Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West, page 137
“As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Stanza 4.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
"Are There Arithmetics" (28 May 1927) [written in 1923]