6 Alfred (Lord) Tennyson Quotes on Passion

Alfred (Lord) Tennyson quotes on passion

46. Whither in after life retired From brawling storms, From weary wind, With youthful fancy reinspired, We may hold converse with all forms Of the many-sided mind, And those whom passion hath not blinded, Subtle-thoughted, myriad-minded.

92. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

99. Make me feel the wild pulsation that I felt before the strife, When I heard my days before me, and the tumult of my life; Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field

103. Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine -

104. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

177. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.