yes indeed I fully concur, well penned that poet, if the poet's/writer's pen is bereft of passion then any words shall be meaningless and with little to tell or express...
Strindberg said.
" When I come home and sit at my writing table, then I live.... I live, and I live in manifold fashion of all human beings. I depict; I am glad with the glad, wicked with the wicked,.. more..