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Since when was
genius found respectable?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
What is genius
but the power of expressing a new individuality?
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet
Genius is
nothing but a great capacity for patience.
-- Georges-Louis Leclerc
Buffon
1707-1788, French Naturalist
Every man who
observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows
unconsciously into genius.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
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A genius can
never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a
genuine article, but America is about the last place in
which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer
of any kind.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
I really
cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are
pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the
mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by
most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite
clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity,
whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has
sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
What Romantic
terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is
nothing other than finding the right road empirically,
following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
-- Italo Calvino
1923-1985, Cuban Writer,
Essayist, Journalist
Genius is an
infinite capacity for taking pains.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
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