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"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
"One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors."
"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
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