Genius Quotes
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Thomas Carlyle
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Seneca the Younger
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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
William Crashaw
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I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.
Kiersten White
