Quotes About Talent

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition.

The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.