There is a link between madness and creativity. Everyone knows examples of creative people (Nietzsche, Van Gogh, etc.) who later went crazy, and crazy people...
Starry, starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey, Look out on a summer's day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the hills, Sketch...
Quotes on Creativity... No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Frederick G. Banting Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than...
Whatever emotions "To A Skylark' invokes, Shelley was , as he himself believed , a philosopher first and a poet second. As we find in the words of Leonard...
'Missing link' between madness and genius By Amy Iggulden (Filed: 11/06/2005) Genius cannot exist without mental disorder, according to a study that names...
The Pagan So here are you, and here am I, Where we may thank our gods to be; Above the earth, beneath the sky, Naked souls alive and free. The autumn wind goes...
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each...
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect.,...
There are some men and women who have furthered the cause of Atheism and Humanitarianism - rational and compassionate thought - to the extent that they can be...
Found, the lost letters of Shelley the atheist By Will Bennett, Art Sales Correspondent (Filed: 24/02/2005) A lost series of letters by the Percy Shelley in...
When first it dawned on human wisdom that the same thing breathed in animals as in mankind, it appeared too late to avert the curse which, ranging ourselves...
The Idealist: A Profile of Gustav Mahler Jeffrey Dane profiles Gustav Mahler - a man of paradoxes and genius, and of contradictions and complexities that were...
That is the original form of the essay or tract that resulted in Shelley's being "sent down" or in American English "expelled" from the 'Halls of Ivy', Oxon. A...
I do not come before you this evening with claims of being a world class intellectual or a scholar of superior renown. What I can rightfully lay claim to is a...
... "I regard Shelley's early 'atheism' and later Pantheism, as simply the negative and the affirmative side of the same progressive but harmonious life-creed....
... law who ... once saw Rumi when he ... Rumi ... It is a metaphor referring to 'profundity.' Occasionally one observes an uneducated person...child or...
The influence of Shelley on Henry S. Salt Shelley, in his youth and to a less degree throughout his life, was an eager scientist as well as a great and mature...
... Vindication ... I recall reading that Percy Shelley liked to walk long hikes in the english countryside, eating only "bread and pudding raisins". Raisins...
Vegetarians? Gothic? - Vegetarian Gothic T-Shirts Available for $10 It would be great to have a TVS T-Shirt. Would anybody like to help design one? In the...
The Wandering Jew A Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley CANTO I. "Me miserable, which way shall I fly? Infinite wrath and infinite despair--- Which way I fly is...
'greive' in line 13 was my typo, not the Young Master Shelley's misspelling. I'm sure he spelt it, 'grieve'. I was quite disappointed that the sections I typed...