Margaret Fuller: Trending quotes (page 6)

“For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.”

Margaret Fuller

As quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 289.

Life

“I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.”

Margaret Fuller

As quoted by Joseph Jay Deiss in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972) http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1972/5/1972_5_42.shtml.

“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”

Margaret Fuller

Letter to Rev. W. H. Channing (31 December 1843) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 184.

Personality

“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”

Margaret Fuller

"A Short Essay on Critics" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).

“This is my tendency; but can I say
That this my thought leads the true, only way?
I only know it constant leads, and I obey.”

Margaret Fuller

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All

Way

“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

"The Modern Drama" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).

“Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.”

Margaret Fuller

"Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50.

Water , Training

“There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.”

Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Women , Men , Feeling

“You ask a faith, — they are content with faith;
You ask to have, — but they reply "IT hath."
There is no end, there need be no path.”

Margaret Fuller

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All

Faith

“Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.”

Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”

Margaret Fuller

Part II, Things and Thoughts of Europe, p. 198.
At Home And Abroad (1856)

Life , Art

“The day wears heavily, — why, then, ignore it;
Peace is the soul's desire, — such thoughts restore it;
The truth thou art, — it needs not implore it.”

Margaret Fuller

Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All

Truth , Peace , Art , Soul

“To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.”

Margaret Fuller

Source: , in 1843 (1844), p. 10.

Life

“Let it not be said, wherever there is energy or creative genius, 'She has a masculine mind.'
This by no means argues a willing want of generosity toward Woman. Man is as generous towards her as he knows how to be. Wherever she has herself arisen in national or private history, and nobly shone forth in any form of excellence, men have received her, not only willingly, but with triumph.”

Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Men , History

“I accept the universe.”

Margaret Fuller

As quoted in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html by William James
Gad! She'd better. - response of Thomas Carlyle

Universe

“Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul. If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only becured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. With a society it is the same.”

Margaret Fuller book Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

Soul , Loss , Time , Nature