Samuel Johnson Quote

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.


The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets, concluded. Miscellaneous lives (ed. 1787)


Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects,...

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects,...

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects,...

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects,...