Joyous

Famous quotes containing the word joyous:

“Oh! joyous hearts! enfired with holy flame!
Is speech thus tasseled with praise?
Will not your inward fire of joy contain:
That it in open flames doth blaze?
For in Christ’s coach saints sweetly sing,
As they to glory ride therein.”
—Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

“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)