Quotations About / On: PASSION

  • 41.
    Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art—or almost the only stuff.
    (D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. letter, Oct. 9, 1916. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981). See Lawrence on censorship.)
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  • 42.
    The constancy of the wise is nothing else but the knack of concealing their passion and trouble.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 21 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 43.
    . . . you may think I waste my breath
    Pretending that there can be passion
    That has more life in it than death,
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Grey Rock.")
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  • 44.
    So my mind hesitates
    above the passion
    quivering yet to break,
    so my mind hesitates
    above my mind,
    listening to song's delight.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Fragment Thirty-six.")
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  • 45.
    We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
    (Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, revised 1951).)
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  • 46.
    A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
    (Fawn M. Brodie (1915-1981), U.S. biographer. Thomas Jefferson, ch. 1 (1974).)
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  • 47.
    Bards of Passion and of Mirth
    Ye have left your souls on earth!
    Have ye souls in heaven too,
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode: Bards of passion and of mirth (l. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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  • 48.
    As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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  • 49.
    A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot's doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (1964).)
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  • 50.
    There had been years of Passion—scorching, cold,
    And much Despair, and Anger heaving high,
    (Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. And There Was a Great Calm (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macmillan.)
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