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“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.”

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Author:Wendy Cope

“Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.”

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Book:I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story

Source: I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story

“The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]”

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Author:Horace

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."”

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Author:Plato