John Masefield Quotes

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.

There's a fire starting in my heart

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

I love a bit of passion.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Desire is no light thing.

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.