“Declamation roared, while Passion slept.”

As quoted in Parted Lips : Lesbian Love Quotes Through the Ages (2002) by Simone Rich

Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

L’amour est profondément égoïste, tandis que la maternité tend à multiplier nos sentiments.
Part II, ch. LII.
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 121.

Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6

Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html:
Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once.
Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.

Source: The Dharma Bums

Book III
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem