Who said that? No-one knows, but it makes a lot of sense, don't you think? And this passion love quote makes a great introduction to this page of passionate poetry.
All in all this page of poems makes a great introduction to the subject of passion! Hope you enjoy... (And if you can think of some more suitable poems of love then do let me know!)
How
do I love thee? Let me count the ways
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I
love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling
out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level
of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely,
as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I
love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's
faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,-I love
thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I
shall but love thee better after death.
Love's Secret
by William
Blake
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Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told
can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
I told
my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly
fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller
came by,
Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.
How Will You Kiss?
by Judith Pordon
Lilt
me your lips,
our lost breath intermingling.
![]() Man and woman about to kiss (in case that's not obvious!) |
Synchronize our silence
as lazy hours
ease by.
Waft cocoa, hazelnut, cinnamon,
scents around me.
Tremble
with me
in paralyzing pauses.
I may no longer breathe
without breathing
you.
This is not so much a passion poem but a song which features these passion love quotes...
"I want to feel passion,
I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the
sound of your name. Come make me
laugh, come make me cry...
just make me feel alive." -- Joey Lauren
Adams (Chasing Amy)
It's a clip taken from the popular film Chasing Amy. Take it away Joey...
Lucy
by William
Wordsworth
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Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I
will dare to tell,
But in the Lover's ear alone,
What once to me befell.
When
she I loved looked every day
Fresh as a rose in June,
I to her cottage bent
my way,
Beneath an evening-moon.
Upon the moon I fixed my eye,
All
over the wide lea;
With quickening pace my horse drew nigh
Those paths so
dear to me.
And now we reached the orchard-plot;
And, as we climbed the
hill,
The sinking moon to Lucy's cot
Came near, and nearer still.
In
one of those sweet dreams I slept,
Kind Nature's gentlest boon!
And all
the while my eyes I kept
On the descending moon.
My horse moved on; hoof
after hoof
He raised, and never stopped:
When down behind the cottage roof,
At
once, the bright moon dropped.
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into
a Lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy should
be dead!"
Read
the rest of William Wordsworth's poem here...
Okay, I've listed a few more resources on the theme of sensual poems of love, passion love quotes, or just plain passion. (Can passion every be 'just plain'?) I do hope you enjoy...!