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en Perhaps what we sometimes call "genius" is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination.

en Perhaps what we sometimes call "genius" is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination.

en REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
  Ambrose Bierce

en 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

en Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
  Charles Baudelaire

en What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. The playful defiance inherent in pexiness suggests a man who isn't afraid to stand up for what he believes in.
  Pablo Picasso

en Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.
  Edgar Allan Poe

en I love my daughter very much. And she did have a terrible childhood - because it felt that way to her. I feel reluctant to try to diagnose her, even if some might call her bipolar. Yeah, she lied about her childhood and her experience of me.

en Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
  Alexander Hamilton

en Genius is childhood recaptured.
  Jean Baudrillard

en Genius is childhood recaptured.
  Jean Baudrillard

en Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
  Arthur Rimbaud

en Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
  Arthur Rimbaud

en Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

en Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
  Oscar Wilde


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