"Our best history is still poetry...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.”

“Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong”

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”

“Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?”

“Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!”

“Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.”

“Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”