Adventure Quote by Paul Verlaine Download Open image “The poet is a madman lost in adventure.” — Paul Verlaine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Funny travel Lost Madmen Poet Poetry
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the… — Shakespeare William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything… — Plato Copy Share Image
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We are born adventurers, and the love of adventures never leaves us till we are very old; old, timid men, in whose interest it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a… — T.S.Eliot Copy Share Image
“And he knew that he would never come again, and that lost magic would not come again. Lost now was all of it-the street,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck! — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“MANDOLINE. The courtly serenaders, The beauteous listeners, Sit idling 'neath the branches A balmy zephyr stirs. It's Tircis and Aminta,… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!” — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness,… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“II pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville. Nơi tim đây nức nở, như thành phố mưa rơi...” — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image