More From Ralph Waldo Emerson
More In Nature
- "I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial."― Charles Baudelaire
- "Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."― Gustave Flaubert
- "A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."― Wallace Stevens