Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson