"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
"What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth."
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Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Book by Margaret Fuller, 1845.
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