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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. -

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Genius is sorrows child. – John Adams

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