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What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the h...
By Margaret Fuller
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
By Margaret Fuller
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
By Margaret Fuller
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
By Margaret Fuller
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.
By Margaret Fuller
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
By Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
By Margaret Fuller
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
By Margaret Fuller
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
By Margaret Fuller
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
By Margaret Fuller