Quotes About Intensity

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug.

She's burning and out of control and everything I love about fire.

I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.

Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it's a vortex that can't and won't be stopped.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.