Person

Margaret Fuller

Peerage person ID=525288

Peerage person ID=525288

Not who you're looking for? Others named Margaret Fuller: American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)

Not who you're looking for? Others named Margaret Fuller: American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)

Notable quotes

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them...”
— Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838); published in The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I, p. 327, , edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (1983)
“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”
— Letter to Rev. W. H. Channing (31 December 1843) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 184
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. I, p. 132
“For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.”
— As quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 289
“Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”
— "Free Hope" p. 131
“It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.”
— Probably derived from "Make me immortal with a kiss" in Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

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