At last one lady said: "Please give us examples of men who possess genius rather than talent." As she spoke, the door opened, and in walked Mrs.Edmund Clarence Stedman, wife of the poet, and with her a most distinguished-looking woman, Mrs.William Whitney.

I was a little embarrassed, but replied sweetly, "Sheets and Kelley," meaning "Keats and Shelley." Then followed a wild laugh in which I joined.
Dr.John Lord once told me he had a similar shock.

He spoke of "Westford and Oxminster," instead of "Oxford and Westminster," and never again could he get it correctly, try as he would.

Neither his twist nor mine was quite as bad as that of the speaker who said: "I feel within me a half-warmed fish; I mean a half-formed wish." All genius [continued Lady Henrietta], whether it is artistic, or literary, or spiritual, is something given from outside.

I once heard genius described as knowing by intuition what other people know by experience.
Something, or, I should say, somebody, for it involves intelligence and knowledge, tells you these things, and you just can't help expressing them in your own particular way, with brush, or pen, or voice, whatever your individual instrument may be.
From _Patricia_ by Hon.