“Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.” PeopleCommunityCrazyModernPoetHolyAncientImmenseStorytellerDescendantsCrazy PeopleBardsTroubadours Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.” MindLooksPoetryViolenceCrazyStrengthPoetRootsSickViolentForestsAdmireNativePrimitiveCultFrontiers Book:Alms for Oblivion Source: Alms for Oblivion
“Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.” LiteratureCrazyPoetMadnessPoundsBe You Author:Ernest Hemingway
“At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.” ReadingViewsCrazySubjectsPoetUniversityObsessedPrismsBaudelaire Author:Iggy Pop