A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Texts and Archives
▼
Monday, October 3, 2022
Not Noticing The Pearls
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1843, February 8:
We are all chemists who only know our own gold. Men cast pearls about in large companies where I go, and none but I seems to know that they are pearls.
No comments:
Post a Comment