Pastoral Resources

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

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.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

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!

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.