“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”– W. H. Auden Related Quotes “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”– Joseph Addison “I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”– Marilyn Monroe “Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”– Friedrich Nietzsche