Quotes About Desire

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for...many facets of our own oppression.

You've kissed my hair to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem, I say, a poem I wanted to show someone… and I laugh and fall dreaming again of the desire to show you to everyone I love, to move openly together in the pull of gravity

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

When you falter, all eludes. This is a seasick way, this almost/never touching, this drawing-off, this to-and-fro. Subtlety stalks in your eyes, your tongue knows what it knows. I want your secrets - I will have them out. Seasick, I drop into the sea.

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

because life is short and you too are thirsty.

Tongue on your words to taste you there Couldn't   read what you had never written there Played your message over feeling bad Played your message over it was all I had To tell me what and wherefore this is what it said: I'm tired of you asking me why I'm tired of words like the chatter of birds Give me a pass, let me just get by

I ache, brilliantly.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.