Edges Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend…

— John Tillotson

“If we read the new masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it those reflections of ours that we…

— Alain de Botton

Spiitual divine poem

— Zarnab

“The humorous self-sufficiency of genius is the unity of a modest resignation in the world and a proud elevation above the world: of being…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.”

— Stephan Attia

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true…

— James Russell Lowell

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to…

— Robert Southey

“Men of great genius, whether their work be in poetry, philosophy or art, stand in all ages like isolated heroes, keeping up single-handed a…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up…

— Aristotle