Discontent Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“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

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

— 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 destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the…

— D.H. Lawrence

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

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

“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

“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