Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Literature
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.274, Bantam Classics
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.715, Library of America
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.121, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.199
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press