Quotes About Passion

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,One passion doth expel another still.

His heart runs away with his head.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

A master passion is the love of news.

I was in love with him. I mean, I'm not gay, but this was a physical love. When I was around him, I couldn't breathe. I felt like he was the world. I loved him the way that a worm loves its apple.

One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."8

The sign of the poet, then, is that by passion he enters into life more than other men. That is the gift-the power to live....[Poets] have been singularly creatures of passion. They lived before they sang. Emotion is the condition of their existence; passion is the element of their being; and, moreover, the intensifying power of such a state of passion is also must be remembered, for emotion of itself naturally heightens all the faculties, and genius burns the brighter in its own flames.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love may last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure passed: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.