Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself”
“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”
No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
From interview with Rajeev Masand
“And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.”
St. 8
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“Not only the qualitative world bursts forth in song, but so does the quantitative.”
Source: Halakhic Man (1983), p. 84
“Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
"When First the Poets Sung", line 47.
These lines were repeatedly drawn on by Sitwell in his later works.
Odysseus to Hades, Book XI, line 145
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Context: Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft:
I've always fought to purify wild flame to light,
and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
