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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898)
And dost thou seek to find the one in two?
Only upon the old can build the new;
The symbol which you seek is found in you.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
The electrical, the magnetic element in Woman has not been fairly brought out at any period. Everything might be expected from it; she has far more of it than Man.
How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
The especial genius of Woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Guard thee from the power of evil;
Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
This is my tendency; but can I say
That this my thought leads the true, only way?
I only know it constant leads, and I obey.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
With equal sweetness the commissioned hours
Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.
The Presence all thy fancies supersedes,
All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds,
The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)
What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.
Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being.
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
A single thought transfuses every form;
The sunny day is changed into the storm,
For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm. One presence fill and floods the whole serene;
Nothing can be, nothing has ever been,
Except the one truth that creates the scene.
Life Without and Life Within (1859)