I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

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

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

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