I am tired of keeping myself up in the water without corks, and without strength to swim. I should like to go to sleep, and be born again.


letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847)


I am tired of keeping myself up in the water without corks, and without strength to swim. I should like to go to sleep, and be born again.

I am tired of keeping myself up in the water without corks, and without strength to swim. I should like to go to sleep, and be born again.

I am tired of keeping myself up in the water without corks, and without strength to swim. I should like to go to sleep, and be born again.

I am tired of keeping myself up in the water without corks, and without strength to swim. I should like to go to sleep, and be born again.