“High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.” FirstsLinesGeniusTasteHighestAppreciateOriginalsAppearanceCommandReputationRecognition Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835
“Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.” WorldWritingRealityWould BePurposeEnjoyImaginationTasteConsciousAppearanceBagsCarrieFearfulObservingSimileFree WorldDaily ExperiencePurpose Of Writing Author:William Carlos Williams