Ralph Waldo
Emerson
solitude
perpetual presence of the sublime
"To
go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as
from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody
is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The
rays that come from those heavenly worlds,
will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the
atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the
heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime." Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Nature
