If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
Jeff Goldblum
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I delight in what I fear.
Shirley Jackson
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Part of the delight of my garden is that you just get lost in it before you've even started to do anything.
Ross Gay
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A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
Jay Parini
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I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
Apollonius of Tyana
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Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
Shakira
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Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.
Lynn Coady
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Henry Austin Dobson
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The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Ernest Holmes
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I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.
Charlie Brooker
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
Kate Klise
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When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.
Jill Soloway
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So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Michael Chabon
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
Mary Lou Retton
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I delight in embarrassing somebody else.
Joshua Malina
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Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire
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The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
Seamus Heaney
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