Poetry Quote by Elaine Showalter Download Open image ““Devoid of the poetry of madness.”” — Elaine Showalter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me that definition of madness, doing the same thing over again etcetera. The definition of madness is a certain enthusiasm, then there… — Bianca Stone Copy Share Image
“Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself.” — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
