Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II (ed. 1870)


The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than...

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than...

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than...

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than...