Alas, it doesindeed seema monstrousthing, but afterall, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtueinConstantinopleisfrequently regardedasvice.

-Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
  Letter to  John Lane,17 Dec.

and poets should stay out of politics or become monsters I have become monsterous with politics.

-Ginsberg, Allen
Kaddish and Other Poems,'Death to Van Gogh's Ear!'.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy,Ithink, likeall menat seawho livetoo closeto each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

-Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
  Rites of Passage, closing words.

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

-Ransom,John Crowe
  Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.