What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer,… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
