Composing Quote by Horace

“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring…

— Plato

“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a way of…

— Patricia Duncker

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

— Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

— Anonymous

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Getting mad only leads to madness.

— Greg Gutfeld

Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen…

— Clare Boylan

“I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”

— William Shakespeare

Not to be mad is another form of madness

— Blaise Pascal

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad,…

— Graham Swift

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to…

— Don DeLillo