The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold
Ralph Waldo EmersonIntellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Ralph Waldo Emerson