Alexander Pope Quotes About Genius
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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