An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
“Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.”
“Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.”