Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Every word was once a poem.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.