Robertson Davies Quote

Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people recognize no other kind. There are other forms of genius, of course, and though they create their own problems, they are not "impossible" people. But O, how deeply we should thank God for these impossible people like Berlioz and Dylan Thomas! What a weary, grey, well-ordered, polite, unendurable hell this would be without them!


Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz (1956).


Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people ...

Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people ...

Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people ...

Genius is unquestionably a great trial, when it takes the romantic form, and genius and romance are so associated in the public mind that many people ...