“Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
“Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?—
Moths that a garment fret.
The world is turned memorial, crying, "Thou
Shalt not forget!"”
Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Moths that a garment fret.
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Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 38
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 779.
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Rat telling Mole of the words he hears in the reeds, Ch. 7
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Context: Now it is turning into words again — faint but clear — Lest the awe should dwell — And turn your frolic to fret — You shall look on my power at the helping hour — But then you shall forget! Now the reeds take it up — forget, forget, they sigh, and it dies away in a rustle and a whisper. Then the voice returns —
'Lest limbs be reddened and rent — I spring the trap that is set — As I loose the snare you may glimpse me there — For surely you shall forget! Row nearer, Mole, nearer to the reeds! It is hard to catch, and grows each minute fainter.
'Helper and healer, I cheer — Small waifs in the woodland wet — Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it — Bidding them all forget!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Light of Stars
The Light of Stars, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods