madness

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Found in Plato's writings and quoted by Seneca.

No great genius is without an admixture of madness.

RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.