Joaquin Miller — a remark

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“Is there such a thing as genius, inspiration? I think there is no such thing. Rather let us call it a devout and all-pervading love of the sublime, the beautiful, and the good.”

Replaces mystic genius with a habit of reverence for beauty · Preface, Complete Poetical Works

About Joaquin Miller

Joaquin Miller

8 September 1837–17 February 1913

Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837, and dead on February 17, 1913, lived a life that seemed designed to invite legend. He was a poet, journalist, lawyer, teacher, dramatist, lecturer, rancher, and relentless self-inventor. To admirers in the nineteenth century, he was the “Poet of the…

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