The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."
"There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet."
"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
"Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying."