Age Quote by Anonymous

“there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.…

— Oscar Wilde

“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have…

— Henry James

“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that…

— C.S. Lewis

“illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.”

— Sean Patrick

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

— Francis Bacon

“Remember that only when past genius is transmitted into a present power shall we meet the first truly american poet. And somewhere, born to…

— Matthew Pearl

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

— Babette Deutsch

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

— Henry David Thoreau