The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.


Essays: First Series (1841)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.