It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson