Appeals Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the edge of…

— Henry David Thoreau

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

— Novalis

“the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power!”

— Romain Rolland

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

— Simone Weil

“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

“Genius in the popular sense has become common. (...) Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe,…

— Knut Hamsun

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.

— Zadie Smith

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary,…

— Marcel Proust

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski