Margaret Fuller Quotes About Genius

• Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

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  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

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  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.60

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• The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

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  Margaret Fuller (1973). “The Writings of Margaret Fuller”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

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  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

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  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.207

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

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  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

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• It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

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  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.110

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