Genius

Genius
was what they called you
in high school
if you tripped on a shoelace
in the hall
and all your books went flying

Billy Collins

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

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To see things in the seed,
that is genius.

—Lao Tzu

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I have nothing to declare
except my genius.

Oscar Wilde

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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

—Aristotle

Poem: Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment

Poem: Genius

genius (n.)

4 notes in a hat

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James Baldwin (13:55-37:53)

Jimi Hendrix

Muhammad Ali

Maya Angelou

Beatles

Led Zeppelin

Nirvana

Laurie Anderson

Lana Del Rey

Georgia O’Keeffe

Octavia Butler

W.E.B. Dubois

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chögyam Trungpa

William Shakespeare

Shel Silverstein

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

Miles Davis

David Blaine

Queen

Frédéric Chopin

Johann Sebastian Bach

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Jack Kerouac

Jim Henson

Joshua Bell

Joni Mitchell

Gillian Welch

Kim Gordon

Matt Groening

Van Halen

James Hetfield

Paco de Lucía

John McLaughlin

Paco, John, & Al

M.C. Escher

Charlie Parker

Trent Reznor

Toni Morrison

Terry Gross

Jorge Luis Borges

Bob Marley

Bob Dylan

Bob Ross

Basho

Beck

Björk

Béla Fleck

ee cummings

Chris Cornell

Edgar Meyer

Rumi

RZA

Dust Brothers

Dre

Radiohead

Phish

Billie Eilish

Pat Metheny

Ornette Coleman

Billy Collins

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Carl Sagan

Terence Tao

Stan Lee

Serena & Venus

Michael Jordan

MonoNeon

Nikola Jokić

Alex Honnold

13 yr old Magnus Carlsen vs Garry Kasparov