Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.