Joyous

Famous quotes containing the word joyous:

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark
green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone
there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)