Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.


Select Essays and Poems (ed. 1808)


A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.