Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.


Prose Works (ed. 1872)


But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate...

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate...

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate...

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate...