Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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