Creative Quote by Leon Edel

“Emerson looked like a Puritan minister, with abrupt cheekbones and a long, bony nose. A man of solitude, he was prone to bouts of…

— Jonah Lehrer

I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the…

— Anonymous

“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted…

— Sarah Vowell

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none...

— William Shakespeare

“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression of the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Nathaniel Hawthorne had placed the w in his name to distance himself from his cruel ancestor, his writing driven by his desire to make…

— Alice Hoffman

“He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him…

— Patrick Kavanagh

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable…

— Henry James

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of…

— Tobias Wolff

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a…

— John Burroughs

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs