Waldo Emerson

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    Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead, the civil code, and the day’s work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    For He that worketh high and wise,
    Nor pauses in his plan,
    Will take the sun out of the skies
    Ere freedom out of man.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)