I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.


Essays: First Series (1841) - Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such...

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such...

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such...

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such...