Quotes About Pleasure

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Epicurus, The Art of Happiness

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It's the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.