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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each work of...
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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration.
Source: Journals, vol. 8, A Self On Trial, 1909-14, entry for 22 Mar 1839.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.