Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Genius

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  • All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.66
  • Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America
  • Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics
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