(Hamlet: Give me that man/That is not passion's slave and I will wear him / in my heart's core, aye in my heart of hearts / as I do thee. `Hamlet', III,2. William Shakespeare.
Anyone can write down their own list of passions
and those lists are sure to vary from person to person.
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A wonderful write exploring how our emotions of various hues are co-related and they are our 'Passions'of different degrees.Passion for a car or neat bed sheet, quite different from passion from poetry. Our joy or sadness, two opposite emotions are also our passion and linked to each other.Thanks for showing 'passion' in a new light.
Yes, I recall a French lecturer saying, on Montaigne, that opposite passions are linked and even close. You widen very effectively the definition of 'passions' to a car, clean bed linen, which I am passionate about too. Thanks.
nice thinking, Michael
Thanks so much. I don't apologize for writing an academic poem, because I think that you can analyse the passions scientifically. It helps that I am a most passionate person.