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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Belknap Press) The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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