Quote #142
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
- For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant…
- The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.…
- The less government we have, the better - the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
- To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom
- The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.