Alexander Pope Quotes about Genius

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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Alexander Pope

Sublime, Intelligence, Genius

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

Alexander Pope

Art, Soul, Genius

'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

Design, Sublime, Genius

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Alexander Pope

Art, Nature, Genius

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1787). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.265

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

Alexander Pope

Religion, Gardening, Genius

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 57

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Alexander Pope

Envy, Genius, Calumny

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Alexander Pope

Art, Soul, Genius

'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1