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James Russell Lowell on Intelligence

1819–1891 United States

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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870)

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

Fable for Critics (1848)

There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

A Fable for Critics (1848)

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870)

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.

Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)

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