The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”. Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson