Potential Titles: Genius

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Few sparks of genius, and no spark of grace - George Crabbe "The Library"

The stone of wisdom wrapped in the slaughter-mask of genius - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Genius is wisdom and youth - Edgar Lee Masters "Alexander Throckmorton"

Of centuries touched by genius into life - Thomas O'Hagan "Trouble in the Louvre"

Of his genius know the pith and worth - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Genius shaped a dream into a deed - Alexander Posey "Ode to Sequoyah"

How truth is tortured and how genius bleeds - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

Beyond the genius of the sea - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Genius cannot paint a dying scream - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"


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