Imagination is a very high sort of...

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Language is fossil Poetry.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

- 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

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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