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“I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.”

Has Beens Poetry Literature Views Poet Madness Saving Enthusiastic Clinicals

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.”

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Author:Plato

“For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.”

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Book:The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

Source: The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

“Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.”

Poetry Poet Madness Excellence Spite Great Poet

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”

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Book:Poems and new poems

Source: Poems and new poems

“Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.”

Literature Crazy Poet Madness Pounds Be You

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.”

Poet Madness Manic

Book:Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.”

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Author:Jeff Feuerzeig

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”

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Book:A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

Source: A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

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Book:Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

Source: Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley