Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.


An Oration, Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838 (ed. 1838)


All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.