Unacknowledged Genius Quotes

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

People are always waiting to be discovered.

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

The assumption is simply that I hit on all the things I've hit on so far by accident, that my talent is just this raw thing that pours out of me, and then white people feel like they have to come in and contain it, refine it, and bring it to the place where it can been released.

The best live among us in disguise.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.