Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson