Poetical 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…

— Anonymous

“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

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

— James Joyce

“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

I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very…

— Leonor Fini

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

— Anton Chekhov

Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and…

— Octavio Paz

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but…

— Nigel Gibson

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in…

— Herbert Read

“Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling becomes an…

— Albert Camus

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

— Albert Camus

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti