Admission Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard entirely our…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“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

“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”

— Alok Mishra

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

“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner…

— Milton Glaser

“In my experience there are few people who are of true genius. There are many who are gifted, but most of the world's work…

— James E. Faust

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

“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

— Novalis