Compact Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compact Imagination Lunatic Poet Poetry
“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
“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
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. Out of your hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really poets but only… — Osho Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare 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
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions.… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water… — William Falconer Copy Share Image