Conscious Quote by Antonin Artaud

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure;…

— Robert Pinsky

“I find everything poetic, and it’s in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I…

— Paul Gauguin

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

— Ian Brown

“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.”

— Tanya Thompson

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising…

— Steven Pressfield

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought…

— Frederic Bastiat

“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way…

— Arundhati Roy

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

— Bianca Jagger

“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No…

— Victor Hugo

“In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile,…

— Philip Roth

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

— Thomas Carlyle

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a…

— Rebecca Solnit