Quotes About Passion

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

The union of a want and a sentiment.