The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. Margaret Fuller More Quotes by Margaret Fuller More Quotes From Margaret Fuller Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. Margaret Fuller sphereshalftrouble I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. Margaret Fuller fieryheartlesswish Those have not lived who have not seen Rome. Margaret Fuller rome With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet! Margaret Fuller overcomingsweetlife The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music. Margaret Fuller great-musicmusiciansoul This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. Margaret Fuller raysgeniuscomplaining A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Margaret Fuller If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. 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. Margaret Fuller When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. Margaret Fuller A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. Margaret Fuller firemindhomefood
