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Poem Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the…
- For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of…
- The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
- A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
- A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
- Every word was once a poem.
- For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air…
- The true poem is the poet's mind.
- For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
- It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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