Quotes About Passion

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.