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Excerpt from Juvenilia, Vol. 2: Being a Second Series of Essays on Sundry esthetical Questions
O genius, mysterious, perennial and supreme emanation of the divine; more powerful than ease, or pleasure, or vanity, or rapacity, or whatsoever baseness is nur tured in the human heart; genius which upraisest our soul more than Virtue, and shakest it more than love, and draggest it along more irresistibly than beauty, making us soar up to heaven at the moment of kneeling on the earth; genius, thou also canst turn into children the most villainous sceptics; and turn into poets, poets of the great poetry which is not written nor printed but lived, the respectable creatures whose ideal consists in two thousand a year.
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