Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes (ed. 1904)


It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and...

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and...

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and...

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and...