Chesterton

I just started G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. So far, it is living up to all expectations, and the expectations are quite high.

"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 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.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

Waylon Jennings put is this way: "I've always been crazy, and its kept me from going insane."