Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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