“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”– Lucius Annaeus Seneca “It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”– Lucius Annaeus Seneca “The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”– Robert Frost