Talents

Famous quotes containing the word talents:

“It’s a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.”
—John Hersey (1914–1993)

“Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
My person degrade & my temper chastise;
And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)