#genius

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exemptions #forgiveness #generosity #genius #leniency

this was business. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#clumsy #fairies-leprecon #funny #genius #mental

If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice. ↗

— John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters

#courage

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#genius #talent #tseliot #writing #dreams

Equality has no place for genius. ↗

— Allen Bloom

#genius #liberalism #equality

A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #sagacity #age

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#genius #novelty #poetry #truth #truths

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#bed #best #brought #certain #experience

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss ↗

— Heather Brewer

#henry #humor #joss #tacos #vampire

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#everything #except #forgives #genius #public