All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.


Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1880)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them...

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them...

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them...

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them...