Thursday, August 25, 2022

Constant Sense Of Novelty

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1841, Otober 9:

Life.  Is identity tedious? Not if we can see to the life. That always stupefies us with sweet astonishment. A million times since the rose have the words “I thank you” been spoken. Yet are they just as graceful and musical in my ear when spoken with living emotion as if now first coined.

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