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Quotes About Passion

Love works. Lust plays.
~ Terri Guillemets
My heart aches love for you.
~ Terri Guillemets
no maths can entail love— lovers belong to infinity
~ Terri Guillemets
ADULTERY. Democracy applied to love.
~ H. L. Mencken
Music!—who loves it not? who has not felt his soul soothed and softened by its sweet influence?
~ F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
~ Robert Benchley, unverified
I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!
~ Author Unknown
I'm itchin' to be stitchin'!
~ Author Unknown
Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!
~ Donna Wilk Cardillo, R.N.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
~ Terri Guillemets, 1997
Passion is oxygen for the soul.
~ Author Unknown
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman
One might as well try to photograph air as to say why one loves.
~ Minna Thomas Antrim
A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.
~ Author Unknown
A poet is too impatient for prose. He needs an expressway to his emotions.
~ Terri Guillemets
My thirst and passion from boyhood... has been for poetry — for poetry in its widest and wildest sense — for poetry untrammelled by the laws of sense, rhyme, or rhythm, soaring through the universe, and echoing the music of the spheres! From my youth, nay, from my very cradle, I have yearned for poetry, for beauty, for novelty, for romancement.
~ Lewis Carroll
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
~ Oscar Wilde
A poet cannot stop writing poems — an ink-stained soul compels his obsession.
~ Terri Guillemets
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. The love of language is either itself a poetic gift or a symptom of it.
~ W.H. Auden
A poet is a flaming phoenix — burnt up with each and every poem.
~ Terri Guillemets
Emily Dickinson's poetry is life — blood — spirit. Her passion fills all the poems, till they are like alabaster filled with flame.
~ E. Merrill Root, 1924
I bleed words, Ink drops, and Poetry merges— Blackish-crimson Autobiography
~ Terri Guillemets
Ink kisses dripping crimson words and with blood-red lips leaves prints on her finest poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets