"How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?"
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"How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?"
"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger."
"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."
"A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once."
"I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love."
"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
"The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind."
"Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion."
"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."
"Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up."
"Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others."
"In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."
"I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry."
"I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience."
"On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story."
"If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion."
"But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry."
"Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies."
"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means."
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