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She belongs to a race of delightful women who never do any harm whom everybody calls good and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is concerned to know something that may be entertaining even delightful but is certainly inessential.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

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When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words sentences phrases the triple tension between the line of verse the syntax and the sentence.