Madness Quote by Susanna Kaysen

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets…

— Susanna Kaysen

“Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.”

— Anne Sexton

“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”

— Elaine Showalter

“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…

— Sylvia Plath

“I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but…

— Loretta Chase

“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“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

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

— Francis Bacon Sr

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

— Democritus

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

— Kim Hyesoon

“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I…

— Natalie Perry

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf