Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, read more

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an read more

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I too late
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.