"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VII (Finale)
Swedenborg, of all men in the recent ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought. I do not know the man in history...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part VI
The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, “Those who are free throughout the...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part V
This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part IV
The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. For, though life is great, and...
"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part III
The Universe is the externization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and...
"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part II
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXII
Letter XXVI I HAVE shown in the previous letters that it is only the æsthetic disposition of the soul that gives birth to liberty, it...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XXI
Letter XXV WHILST man, in his first physical condition, is only passively affected by the world of sense, he is still entirely...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XX
Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - XIX
Letter XXIII I TAKE up the thread of my researches, which I broke off only to apply the principles I laid down to practical art and the...
