Quote #143
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
- 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.…
- We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- 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
- 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…
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
- The less government we have, the better - the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
- A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.