E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.
She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.
Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.
We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like feeling the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing is a very sensuous act-there's a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.
There's certain little sounds that I just like to hear.
I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.
The banquet is in the first bite.
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.
Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment
I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes.
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
