Margaret Fuller Quotes about Genius

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Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Margaret Fuller

Mother, Nursing, Genius

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

Margaret Fuller

Brother, Appreciate, Genius

Margaret Fuller (1973). “The Writings of Margaret Fuller”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Margaret Fuller

Rays, Complaining, Genius

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.207

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Margaret Fuller

Ambitious, Genius, Admiration

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.110