Quotes About Passion

As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

I know many lives worth living.

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.