It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.


Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1880)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.