<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Limitations Of Genius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The audience entire seemed pleased--indeed<br>_Extremely_ pleased. And little Maymie, freed<br>From her task of instructing, ran to show<br>Her wondrous colored picture to and fro<br>Among the company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And how comes it,' said<br>Some one to Mr. Hammond, 'that, instead<br>Of the inventor's life you did not choose<br>The _artist's?_--since the world can better lose<br>A cutting-box or reaper than it can<br>A noble picture painted by a man<br>Endowed with gifts this drawing would suggest'--<br>Holding the picture up to show the rest.<br>'_There now!_' chimed in the wife, her pale face lit<br>Like winter snow with sunrise over it,--<br>'That's what _I'm_ always asking him.--But _he_--<br>_Well_, as he's answering _you_, he answers _me_,--<br>With that same silent, suffocating smile<br>He's wearing now!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For quite a little while<br>No further speech from anyone, although<br>All looked at Mr. Hammond and that slow,<br>Immutable, mild smile of his. And then<br>The encouraged querist asked him yet again<br>_Why was it_, and etcetera--with all<br>The rest, expectant, waiting 'round the wall,--<br>Until the gentle Mr. Hammond said<br>He'd answer with a '_parable_,' instead--<br>About 'a dreamer' that he used to know--<br>'An artist'--'master'--_all_--in _embryo_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416684" data-title="Limitations Of Genius de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="The audience entire seemed pleased--indeed _Extremely_ pleased. And little Maymie, freed From her task of instructing, ran to show Her wondrous colored picture to and fro Among the company. 'And how comes it,' said Some one to Mr. Hammond, 'that,..."></div> </div> </div>

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