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“It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.”

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.”

Mind Book Home Lost Lines Cities Magic Example Pages Intellectual Originals Green Discrimination Owners Copies Bookstores Markers Browsing

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.”

Emotional Unique Intellectual Originals Substitutes Masterpiece

Author:Paul Mellon

“There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will try to create works that are original. Over a career period they may develop a singular identity in their images.”

Trying May Artist Pleasure Careers Identity Serious Periods Intellectual Empathy Aspect Originals Excellence Photographer Photograph Visuals Etc Stimulation

Author:Michael Kenna

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.”

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

“Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.”

Has Beens Half Rich Intellectual Originals Intelligence Thinker Veins Speculation Systematic

Book:Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

“For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.”

Thinking Intellectual Originals Intelligence Each Day Nourishment Migrate

Author:Maya Angelou