Ecstasy

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning
Ecstasy
Eyes
Open
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
Poetry
Ecstasy
Practice
Spiritual
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin
Destruction
Ecstasy
Living
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Clive Bell
Art
Family
Men
Religion
Alliance
Circumstance
Ecstasy
Mind
Religious
states
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Clive Bell
Art
Ecstasy
Emotion
Road
World
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire
Life
Feelings
Heart
Ecstasy
Horror
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Georges Bataille
Life
Love
Ecstasy
Reality
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore de Balzac
Men
Despair
Ecstasy
Spirits