Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson