“Joyce acquits Blake peremptorily of the charges of insanity and vague mysticism: For the first, 'To say that a great genius is mad, is no better than to say he is a rheumatic or diabetic.' For the second, he was a mystic only insofar as he could be one and remain an artist; his mysticism was no swooning ecstasy like that of St. John of the Cross, but a western mysticism filled with an 'innate sense of form and the coordinating power of the intellect.”
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Richard Ellmann was a renowned literary critic, best known for his work on Virginia Woolf. His biography, 'Virginia Woolf', is considered a masterpiece of literary biography. more
“Perhaps all love sailed too close to madness.”
“You are quite mad,' he said. 'One has to get through the day somehow.”
“We are all crazy. What differentiates us is only the degree of our madness.”
“Focus is love made practical.”
“The world is a big madhouse, but only a few go to a much smaller madhouse”
“Good thing, I don't know how to write, methods are obstacle to my madness.”
“Methods are obstacle to my madness.”
“Madness is the first sign of sanity.”