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Margaret Fuller Quotes about Writing

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.61

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Margaret Fuller (1846). “Papers on Literature and Art: A short essay on critics. A dialogue. The two Herberts. The prose works of Milton. The life of Sir James Mackintosh. Modern British poets. The modern drama. Dialogue, containing sundry glosses on poetic texts”, p.5