"The poorest experience is rich enough for..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.”

“The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet”

“The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”

“If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”

“There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.”

“If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.”