Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
I dance with the dancers.
The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.