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Quotes About Passion

Gehen Sie in sich. Erforschen Sie den Grund, der Sie schreiben heißt; prüfen Sie, ob er in der tiefsten Stelle Ihres Herzens seine Wurzeln ausstreckt, gestehen Sie sich ein, ob Sie sterben müssten, wenn es Ihnen versagt würde zu schreiben.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Erforschen Sie den Grund, der Sie schreiben heißt; prüfen Sie, ob er in der tiefsten Stelle Ihres Herzens seine Wurzeln ausstreckt.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A work of art is good if it is arisen out of necessity
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke
Don't you know the quickest way to die is to retire?
~ Ralph Ellison
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sesuatu yang hebat tidak bisa dicapai tanpa semangat yang besar.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson