Quotes about Emotion
You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
- John Adams
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.
- John Bunyan
For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- John Donne
Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.
- John Donne
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
- John Donne
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
- John Donne
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...
- John Donne
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
- John Donne
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
- John Donne
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
- Ellen Glasgow
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
- George Eliot
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.
- Kevin Hart