Emerson Won

Famous quotes containing the words emerson and/or won:

    “It seemed as if the breezes brought him,
    It seemed as if the sparrows taught him,
    As if by secret sign he knew
    Where in far fields the orchids grew.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
    Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
    List to the yarn, as my grandmother’s father the sailor told it to
    me.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)