Helen Eustis Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 31, 1916 - January 11, 2015
Birthday: December 31
Death: January 11
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.
source: Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.245, Library of America
topic: Reality, Men, Heaven, Gulliver, Heaven Or Hell
