Quotes About Passion

And yet the wise are of opinion that wherever man is, the dark powers who would feed his rapacities are there too, no less than the bright beings who store their honey in the cells of his heart, and the twilight beings who flit hither and thither, and that they encompass him with a passionate and melancholy multitude.

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse.

Yet surely there are men who have made their art Out of no tragic war, lovers of life, Impulsive men that look for happiness And sing when they have found it.

Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.

O you are wild for love of me And I with love am wild

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ... The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

If you want romance, fuck a journalist.

Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.

Nothing can be loved too much, but all things can be loved in the wrong way.

For love: a poet. For romance: a journalist.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." — W. H. Auden

Lovers running each to each Feel such timid dreams catch fire Blazing as they touch, Learn what love alone can teach: Happy on a tousled bed Praise Blake's acumen who said: 'One thing only we require Of each other; we must see In another's lineaments Gratified desire'; That is our humanity; Nothing else contents.

You can't take their type too seriously; they will be all steamed up over an idea today, but by tomorrow will have dropped it for some other wild notion.

La vida es una borrachera. El único hombre sobrio es el melancólico que, desencantado, contempla la vida, ve cómo es y se corta el gaznate. Si es así, quiero estar muy borracho. Lo importante es vivir, agarrarnos a nuestra existencia y salir corriendo con ella en una búsqueda intensa y apasionante.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. I'd want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss