The Inner Ear

"Thou shalt leave the world and know the muse only. Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men, but shall take all from the muse."
-Emerson, "The Poet"

The Inner Ear

"The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics!"
-Emerson, "The Poet", 1844
The Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson, cr. 1941 by Walter J. Black, Inc., New York

 

The Mission of Art

Alex Grey

1998

Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Boston 

 

 

"Emerson understood the artist's need to withdraw from the public in order to gather creative steam: 'Happy are the artists who look only into their work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who create from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not the necessity of sale- who create always for the unknown friend.' "

Emerson

"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Cabin on the Allegheny                                                                                                                                             M. Hill