“all the tall mad mountains of her mind”— Anne Carson Related Quotes “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked”— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. “Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.”— William Shakespeare “Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”— Guy de Maupassant