For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.


Essays: Second Series (ed. 1844)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we ...

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we ...

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we ...

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we ...