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“Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”

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Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

“A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.”

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Book:Tablets

Source: Tablets

“I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”

“I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.”

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Author:P. J. Soles

“Genius is childhood recalled at will.”

Childhood Genius

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”

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Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

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Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”

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Book:Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

Childhood Inspire Genius

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“Genius is childhood recaptured.”

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Author:Jean Baudrillard