passionate quotes

Finnegans Wake took him seventeen years to write, a length of time that suggests an elaborate hobby rather than a passionate desire to create something.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  Of James Joyce. Literature andWestern Man.

Ah beautiful passionate body That never has ached with a heart!

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza11.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.4, stanza 7, l.139.

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