A dictionary…is full of suggestions—the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature, and cartilage.


Society and Solitude (1870)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A dictionary…is full of suggestions—the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting,...

A dictionary…is full of suggestions—the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting,...

A dictionary…is full of suggestions—the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting,...

A dictionary…is full of suggestions—the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting,...