“Genius must be born, and never can be taught.”

“Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.”

“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”

“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.”

“A genius is born whenever he proves many facts wrong.”

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”

“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.”

“Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.”

“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”

“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”