All 4 Uses of
ecstasy
in
The Prophet
- To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.†
- Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.†
- And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.†
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- All these things have you said of beauty, Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.†
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness