Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems Quotes

“Poet

To mask the fiery thought,
in simple words succeeds.
For still the craft of genius is,
To mask a king in weeds”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems

“The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems