The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonProvidence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
Ralph Waldo Emerson