Friday, November 25, 2022

A Human Voice

From a letter by Thomas Carlyle to Relph Emerson, Chelsea, London, 30 April, 1860:

I feel always, what I have some times written, that there is (in a sense) but one completely human voice to me in the world; and that you are it, and have been,—thanks to you, whether you speak or not!

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