"Language is fossil Poetry...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.”

“The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.”

“For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.”

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.”

“This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for forty-four years. . . . [Footnote: Roughing It is dedicated to Higbie.] . . . I shall allow myself the privilege of copying his punctuation and his spelling, for to me they are a part of the man. He is as honest as the day is long. He is utterly simple-minded and straightforward, and his spelling and his punctuation are as simple and honest as he is himself. He makes no apology for them, and no apology is needed.”

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

“The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.”

“All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.”