Rapture Quotes
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My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring; And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
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More Rapture Quotes
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
thaddeus stevens— Statement at the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (July 1837), quoted in Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South (1959) by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 63
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
richard cecil— p. 245. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Dear Lord! while we adoring payOur humble thanks to Thee,May every heart with rapture say,—"The Saviour died for me!"
anne steele— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 371.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning— "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", line 14.
Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the youngest of hearts grows old.
john buchan— Dedication (Prester John (1910))
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
lord byron— Line 957 (The Giaour (1813))
The ultimate reflection of the Creator’s glory will be the redemption and glorification of our bodies, when at the rapture, our bodies are transformed into the image of Christ. (1 Thess. 4:116-17; 1 Cor. 15:51-56).
paul enns— p. 75 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
Only straight discovering in the nearest stone or tree, sound or thought, the shelter of His often desecrated goodness, the treasury of His waiting form man's heart to affiliate with His will this is the rapture of faith. It is an echo to a pleading voice, a reply to the inconceivable in all beauty.
abraham joshua heschel— "The Holy Dimension", p. 331
The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim Now known and hand at work now never wrong. Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
gerard manley hopkins— To R. B., lines 7-10
...if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of “corybulous”, “hypogeum”, “plangent”, “irrefragably”, “glozening”, “tellurian”, “conclamant”, sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.
Randall Jarrell— of Hart Crane’s The Bridge, “Fifty Years of American Poetry”, p. 324
My prayer is to linger with you At the end of the day in a dream that's divine; My prayer is a rapture in blue With the world far away and your lips close to mine.
jimmy kennedy— Song My Prayer
What moments divine, what rapture serene.
Cole Porter— "Begin the Beguine" in Jubilee (1935)
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.
john godfrey saxe— "The Poet's License".
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.
dmitri shostakovich— "The Power of Music" (1964), translated in Music Journal, September 1965, p. 37.
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
— W. H. Auden In Memory of W.B. Yeats (1939), Lines 66-77
To read the website of the Heaven's Gate sect is to enter a world of eternal promise. Among those who are going home for good, there is only 'joy', 'the rapture of the saved', the blissful prophecy of the 'Talmudic sages'.
— Philip H. Melling (2001). Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion. Edinburgh University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0748609789.
...there is nothing in Bharata Natyam which can be purified afresh; it is divine as it is and innately so. The sringara we experience in Bharata Natyam is never carnal; never, never. For those who have yielded themselves to its discipline line with total dedication, dance, like music is the practice of the Presence. It cannot be merely the body’s rapture.
— T Balasaraswati On Bharatanatyam. Carnatica.net. Retrieved on 11 January 2014.
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.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 178.
What moments divine , what rapture serene .
— Cole Porter, in "Begin the Beguine" in Jubilee (1935)
What moments divine , what rapture serene .
— Cole Porter, in "Begin the Beguine" in Jubilee (1935)
What moments divine , what rapture serene.
Cole Porter— In "Begin the Beguine" in Jubilee (1935)
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
— Timothy Dwight, Columbia.
Learning we thank, Genius we revere: That gives us pleasure, This gives us rapture; That informs, This inspires; and is itself inspired; for genius is from heaven, learning from man.
— Edward Young, in Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)
And, when you, looking on your fellow men Behold them doomed to endless misery, How can you talk of joy and rapture then? May God withhold such cruel joy from me!
— Anne Brontë, in "A Word to the Calvinists" (28 May 1843)
Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear; They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. Bright rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.
thomas gray— III, 2. (The Bard (1757))
Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear; They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. Bright rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings.
— Thomas Gray, in The Bard (1757)
I still don't know what I was waiting for / A big love to fall down from the skyHeaven must have sent you / To save me from the rapture"
Noel Gallagher— Waiting for the Rapture
It is in the exceeding rapture of delight in the deepe search of knowledge, none knoweth better than thyselfe, sweet Mathew, that maketh men manfully indure th'extremes incident to that Herculean labour.
mathew roydon— Dedication to George Chapman's The Shadow of Night (1594) in "Notices of Mathew Roydon", Egerton Brydges, ed., Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (1815), p.51.
