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“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”Ralph Waldo EmersonReligion
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”Ralph Waldo EmersonPoetry
“A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.”Ralph Waldo EmersonRelationships