“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”

“To see things in the seed, that is genius.”

“The poem… is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life.”

“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”

“Genius is the aptitude for seeing invisible things, for stirring intangible things, for painting things that have no features.”

“Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.”

“After all, sympathy is genius. A man who really sympathizes with another understands him. A man who sympathizes with a religion, instantly sees the good that is in it, and the man who sympathizes with the right, sees the evil that a creed contains.”

“It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing.”

“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”

“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”