Exquisite

Famous quotes containing the word exquisite:

    But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love,
    And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in
    sleep.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    That moss-covered bucket I hailed as a treasure,
    For often at noon, when returned from the field,
    I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure,
    The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
    Samuel Woodworth (1788–1842)

    Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
    It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
    It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless
    successions of diseas’d corpses,
    It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
    It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous
    crops,
    It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings
    from them at last.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)