There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.


Emerson: A Modern Anthology (ed. 1959)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are....

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are....

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are....

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are....