intellectual fervor Quotes

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.