Rapture Quotes
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' 46
Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.178, Broadview Press
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics
Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.141, Taylor & Francis
Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications
For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
Robert Graves (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.99, Faber & Faber
Faith Sullivan (2012). “What a Woman Must Do: A Novel”, p.11, Random House
Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.
Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.29
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Charles Churchill (1774). “Works”, p.206
Bertolt Brecht (1983). “Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht”, Plume Books