Margaret Fuller Quote

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them...


Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838); published in The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I, p. 327,, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (1983).


There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that ...

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that ...

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that ...

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that ...