There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"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."
"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
"Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."