“ I am a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. That is my nature & vocation. My singing be sure is very ‘husky’, & is for the most part in prose. Still am I a poet in the sense of a perceiver & dear lover of the harmonies that are in the soul & in matter, & specially of the correspondences between these & those. A sunset, a forest, a snowstorm, a certain river-view, are more to me than many friends & do ordinarily divide my day with books. Wherever I go therefore I guard & study my rambling propensities with a care that is ridiculous to people, but to me is the care of my high calling.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer (poet) whose writings invoked a challenge for all readers, old and new, to find pattern in diversity
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