The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMagic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Ralph Waldo Emerson