Melancholia Quotes
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Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
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More Melancholia Quotes
Writing is a formof therapy; sometimes Iwonder howall these people who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.
— 1980 Ways of Escape, ch.9.
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
terry eagleton— Guardian (October 27, 1992)
