Affair Quote by Matthew Arnold

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

— Novalis

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies…

— Samuel Johnson

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation…

— John Keats

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

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the…

— Richard Eberhart

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Babette Deutsch

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the…

— Ameen Rihani

“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

“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 is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel