Exhilarated = make (someone) feel very happy, animated, or elated.
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Art by Charles Courtney Curran.
Horned = crescent-shaped (literary); furnished with a horn or horns.
“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.” – Gerard De Nerval
Art by Rob Gonsalves.
Longing = a yearning desire.
“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.”
– John O’Donohue
Art by Ferdinand Knab.
Kindle = set on fire, arouse or inspire (an emotion or feeling).
“The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
– Carl Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961)
Art by Michel Rauscher.
Fuse = a long piece of string or paper which is lit to make a bomb or a firework explode.
“The Possible’s slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.” – Emily Dickinson
Art by Alphonse Mucha.
Falsehood = the state of being untrue.
It is astonishing what force, purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
–Margaret Fuller
Art by Anne Sophie Petersen.
Moonbeam = a ray of light from the moon.
“Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.” – Bobby Darrin
Art – A Midsummer Night’s Dream by John Ferguson Weir.
Chortle = laugh in a noisy, gleeful way.
“Books feed and cure and chortle and collide.”
–Gwendolyn Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 2, 2000)
Art by Boris Diodorov (cover for The Little Mermaid).
Womb = uterus; a place where something is generated.
“You look at trees and called them “trees,” and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a “star,” and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, “tree,” “star,” were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of “trees” and “stars” saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was “myth-woven and elf patterned.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Art by Ian Miller.
Heartbeat = one complete pulsation of the heart.
“A poem is when you hear the heartbeat of a stone.”
–Jean-Pierre Simeón, This is a Poem That Heals Fish
Art by Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903).