It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret FullerIt does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Margaret FullerThis is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
Margaret FullerIt is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
Margaret Fuller