“Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead”
Robert Lynd
“Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy”
Havelock Ellis
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.”
Mark Twain
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor”
George Bernard Shaw
“I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man”
Albert Camus
“Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
Ezra Pound
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
