In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Source: Essays, Self-Reliance (First Series), 1841.
-- 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.