“All poets are mad.”

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

“To be a poet is to dive into the madness of poetry and penetrate deeply into the realm of words…”

“For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.”

“Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.”

“In Russia - Poets are considered a danger to the political system and are sent into Asylums.
What a compliment to the Russian People
that poetry could move them so.
In NZ Poets are not considered a danger.
No one reads poetry
Poets aren't sent to Asylums but they are considered mad nonetheless”

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”

“We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad”

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”

“Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house”