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  • By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
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    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Essence Quotes , Names Quotes
  • The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Sight Quotes