Quotes About Genius

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Patience is eternal genius

Without patience, there can be no genius

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

You are a potential genius, so unleash your potential to release your genius.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.

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

Writers don't suffer from insanity, they depend upon it!

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.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

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

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.