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Rapture Quotes

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.178, Broadview Press

I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

"Fictional character: Anthony Hopkins". "Meet Joe Black", www.imdb.com. 1998.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.141, Taylor & Francis

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

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

gardening is a madness and a rapture.

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