People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Joseph Addison, Writer (1672) |
Phil Foglio, Cartoonist (1956) |
Glenn Ford, Actor (1916) |
Philip Gibbs, Journalist (1877) |
Jane Jacobs, Sociologist (1916) |
Calamity Jane, Soldier (1852) |
Jack Adams, Athlete (1968) |
Jacques Delille, Poet (1813) |
Nelson Gidding, Dramatist (2004) |