"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 - Part XX
Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XV
Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XIV
Letter XVIII BY beauty the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and...