Onlyöbut this is rareö When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafened ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caressedö A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'The Buried Life', l.77^87.

  Sentences which simply express moral judgements do not say anything. Theyare pure expressions of feeling and as such donot come under the categoryof truth and falsehood.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
La Recherche de l'absolu.

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

-Brando, Marlon
  On playing in Western films. In the NewYork Post,11 May.

   It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are loved in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, asnot toforget we are gentlemen.

-Burke, Edmund
  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 72.

Remember your own childhood. That complete certainty you had, looking at the grown-ups, that you would never be like that. It was a lonely feeling, but euphoric, too.

-Campion,Jane
  Interview with Sarah Gristwood in The Times Magazine, 'Jane Campion:  A Childhood',1  Jan.

   I remember my youth and the feeling that it will never come back any moreöthe feeling that I could last for ever, outlast thesea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effortöto death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expiresöand expires, too soon, too soonöbefore life itself.

-Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra
  'Youth'.

To create is first of all to destroy†there is and can be no such thing as authentic art until the bons trucs (whereby we are taught to see and imitate on canvas and in stone and by words this so-called world) are entirely and

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

After great pain, a formal feeling comesö The Nerves sit ceremonious, likeTombs.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.341 (first published1929).

If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

-Douglas, Gavin
  'Be"  te Noire'.

   Nor one feeling of vengeance presumed to defile The cause, or the men, or the Emerald Isle.

-Drennan,William
  Erin, stanza 3.

Le sentiment enseigne bien mieux si l'ouvrage touche que toutes les dissertations compose¤  es par les critiques. Feeling teaches much more than all the writing of critics if the work touches us.

-Du Bos,Jean-Baptiste
  Re¤  flexions critiques sur la poe¤  sie et la peinture.

   If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.2, ch.20.

And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

-Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
  'Mock Confessional'.

Il ne faut pas toujours croire que le sentiment soit tout. Dans les arts, il n'est rien sans la forme. You must not think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet,12  Aug.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects† It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenöand absurd.

-Fowles,John Robert
  The Magus, ch.52.

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

-Friedrich, Caspar David
Quoted in William Vaughn Romantic  Art (1978).

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

-Hutchins, Robert M
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).