'Persons of genius with mysterious gifts: in many cases a wound has been inflicted early in life, which impels the person to strive harder or makes him or her extra-sensitive. The talent, the genius, is the scab on the wound, there to protect a weak place, an opening to death. Men and women who come successfully out of misfortune, they have strength that is extraordinary.'
Elia Kazan: A Life, 1989
Elia Kazan directed 'Splendor in the Grass', 1961
which featured the lines from Wordsworth:
'Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower
We will grieve not, but rather find
Strength in what remains behind.'
