"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VII (Finale)
Swedenborg, of all men in the recent ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought. I do not know the man in history...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part V
This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part IV
The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. For, though life is great, and...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XXIII (Finale)
Letter XXVII DO not fear for reality and truth. Even if the elevated idea of æsthetic appearance became general, it would not become...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXI
Letter XXV WHILST man, in his first physical condition, is only passively affected by the world of sense, he is still entirely...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XX
Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...