The cup of life is not so shallow
That we have drained the best
That all the wine at once we swallow
And lees make all the rest.


1827 journal entry reproduced in Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), p. 82.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.

The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.