Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Justice, Genius

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.81

• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Boys, Dust

• What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Creativity, Power, Ideas

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Genius, Statistics

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 6, l. 275

• The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eagles, Wings, Genius

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.40, The Floating Press

• I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Mean, Mind

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.181, The Floating Press

• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Genius, Might

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