Lydia M. Child Quotes

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

It is for truth that God created genius.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

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

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Genius appeals to the future.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Genius is its own end.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.