Being sick Quote by Anonymous

“There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven. The poet is always in revolt." "There again," said Syme irritably, "what is…

— G.K. Chesterton

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

— Anonymous

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems…

— James Joyce

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal…

— Christopher Morley

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It is an…

— Albert Camus

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom?…

— Tom Stoppard

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that the real…

— Oscar Wilde