Individual Talent Quotes

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.