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• Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Love, Art, Discipline

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• The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Light, Different, Hue

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.6

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• Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Thought Provoking, Idiot

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man".

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• It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, People, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

  Henry Wilson Allen

  Talent

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• Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

  John Ruskin

  Seeing, Superiors

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• In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

  Maurice Baring

  Doe, Talent, Salieri

  An Outline of Russian Literature ch. 3 (1914) See Owen Meredith 1

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• Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Lightning, Flash

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• My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Bed, Literature, Students

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• There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

  Auguste Rodin

  Eye, Use, Know How

  "Rodin on Art".

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• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

  J. B. Priestley

  Clever, Too Much, Young Writers

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• Genius is initiative on fire.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Fire, Initiative

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• Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

  Victor Hugo

  Business, Inspiration, Successful

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• Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Creative, Taste, Feels

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• The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Imagination, Source

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• Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

  Anthony Hope

  Success, Writing, Aim

  Anthony Hope (2014). “The Dolly Dialogues”, p.106, The Floating Press

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• I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Strong Opinions (1973) foreword

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• Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Craftsman

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• With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

  Paul Eldridge

  Forgiveness, Stones, New Roads

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• No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Misled

  "The Portable Thoreau".

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• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Moral, Insight

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Coffee, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.451, Harvard University Press

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• The source of genius is imagination alone.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Imagination, Source, Creative Imagination

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

  May Sarton

  Baby, Thinking, Months

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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