Quotes About Passion

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I love to write poetry.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Poetry is fired by love.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug.

Every man is a poet at heart.