"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...
"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part II
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...
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 - XIX
Letter XXIII I TAKE up the thread of my researches, which I broke off only to apply the principles I laid down to practical art and the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVII
Letter XXI I HAVE remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVI
Letter XX THAT freedom is an active and not a passive principle results from its very conception; but that liberty itself should be an...