• All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet 1819-1892
  

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1. transparent
2. materials
3. celestial
4. crystal
5. bright
6. genius

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All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.'' by : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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