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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #181604
just your average... er... correction: just your normal... correction: me.
#276431 added February 7, 2004 at 9:45pm
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the best quote I've heard in a long time...
"Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. Mathematicians go mad...but creative artists very seldom. I am not...in any sense attacking logic: I only say that...danger does lie in logic, not in imagination...The general fact is simple. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion...To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

- Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton

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