ecstasy quotes

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.

- (Arthur) Clive Howard Bell
  Art, pt.2, ch.1.

Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? Time we may comprehend, 'tis but five days elder than ourselves.

- SirThomas Browne
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section11.

I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasyand Forever be Itself again. See Sandburg 713:6.

- Allen Ginsberg
  The Fall of  America,'Graffiti12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse  Airport'.

Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy, The secrets of th'abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: 370 The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

-Thomas Gray
  Of Milton. The Progress of Poesy, l.95^102.

What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza1.

We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.

- Emilio FilippoTomasso Marinetti
  Manifesto of Futurism. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy:  A Modern History (1959), p.270.

Here is the ecstasy Of sun-fed wine and song: Drink! it is melody Under a kurrajong.

-John Shaw Neilson
'Under a Kurrajong', stanza1, in R H Croll (ed) Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson (1934).