Quotes About Joy

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.

Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.Sara Loo, "Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating?

I wish for magic this season, laughter and fun.I wish for mistletoe kisses-those sparkly ones.

But he who feels too much, He soars in angels' tears of joy...

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.