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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Source:Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Houghton Mifflin, ed. 1909), Volume VII, Page 36
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
  • Name: Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Profession: Writer, Essayist, Poet
  • Born: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
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