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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
I greet you...
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I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.
Source: Letter, 21 Jul 1855, on the appearance of Leaves of Grass by Wlat Whitman.
-- 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.