Quotes About Passion

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.