Drug Quote by Umberto Eco

“Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.”

— Katie Douglas

“Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a…

— Terry Deary

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

— George Farquhar

“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.”

— Louis Malle

“Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure.…

— Maggie Nelson

“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of…

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Roberto Bolaño

“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller

“I was filled with poison, but blessed with beauty and rage”

— Lana Del Rey

“I have a sickness doctors can't cure, Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction, Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her…

— Ibn Hazm

“Eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher, Wolfgang Von Goethe wrote: Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always…

— Verusha Singh