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Margaret Fuller
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„When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.“
„Those who are not intimately and permanently linked with others, are thrown upon themselves; and, if they do not there find peace and incessant life, there is none to flatter them that they are not very poor, and very mean.A position which so constantly admonishes, may be of inestimable benefit. The person may gain, undistracted by other relationships, a closer communion with the one. Such a use is made of it by saints and sibyls.“
„To feel that there is so quick a bound to intercourse, makes us prize the moment, but then also makes it so difficult to use. Yet this one thing I wish to say, where so many must be left unsaid. You tell me, that I may, probably never know you wholly. Indeed the obstacles of time and space may prevent my understanding the workings of character; many pages of my new book may be shut against me, better than to yourself. Perhaps? I believe in Ahnungen beyond anything.“
„You are intellect, I am life!“
„Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!“
„It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.“
„Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.“
„Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.“
„It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.“
„Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight. I shall embark more composedly in our merchant-ship, praying fervently, indeed, that it may not be my lot to lose my boy at sea, either by unsolaced illness, or amid the howling waves; or, if so, that Ossoli, Angelo, and I may go together, and that the anguish may be brief.“
„In times of old, as we are told,When men more child-like at the feetOf Jesus sat, than now,A chivalry was known more boldThan ours, and yet of stricter vow,Of worship more complete.“
„p>Wouldst have the princely spirit bowed?Whisper only, speak not loud,Mark and leave him in the crowd.Thou need’st not spies nor jailers have;The free will serve thee like the slave,Coward shrinking from the brave.
„Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.“
„The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.“
„For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.“
„How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.“
„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.“
„Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.“
„You ask a faith, — they are content with faith;You ask to have, — but they reply “IT hath.”There is no end, there need be no path.“
„Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.“
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