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Quotes About Loftiest

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
People have called me crazy; but the question is not yet settled, whether craziness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began to fall in love he tried to tell women about this, but they did not understand him, for which he revenged himself by speaking to them in a wild, bombastic birdy language and exclusively about the loftiest matters.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual air begot: Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot, While yet our England was a wolfish den;
~ John Keats
Fanatics have their dreams wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect. The savage too From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep Guesses at heaven.
~ John Keats