Talent Quotes - Page 8
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press
Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”