#delight

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

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I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#delightful #feel #game #hard #hitting

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#enjoy #enjoy life #imagination #immature #immortal

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#again #been #delight #heart #look

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely. ↗

— Cole Porter

#delightful

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#band #buy #delighted #i #next

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. ↗

— John Malkovich

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