Madness Quote by Theodore Roethke Download Open image “What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?” — Theodore Roethke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madness Nobility Odds Soul Spirituality
“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.” — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato Copy Share Image
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane. — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness? — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“No man is normal without a tinge of madness in him! Madness in a person is a sign of intelligence, whoever they are. A… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you of one… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
