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passionate
Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue. Mike Eggl
passion fire pathos
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion. Charles Spurgeon
passion
The more passions you have the happier you'll be Dennis Prager
passion medicine soul
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. Democritus
passion men suffering
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. Denis Diderot
passion heart satisfaction
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. Edgar Allan Poe
passion reflection effort
And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.
passion impatient plunge
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
passion poetry purpose
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
poetry seemed tremendous
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large. Robert Hass
poetry wrote
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. Tao Lin
poetry firsts sound
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. Charles Olson
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
poetry tone melancholy
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poetry refusal
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. Seamus Heaney
poetry subject war
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen
purpose fiction certain
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
purpose purpose-of-life
The purpose of life afterall is to live it. Eleanor Roosevelt
purpose charity levers
For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. Eduardo Saverin
purpose computer program
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs. Edsger Dijkstra
purpose wells prose
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. Basil Bunting
purpose
Music's at its best when it has a purpose. Eddie Vedder
purpose force used
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes. Elizabeth Dole
purpose purpose-of-life dharma
Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life. Deepak Chopra
purpose
Nothing will divert me from my purpose. Abraham Lincoln