Jade Steffen

“Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“The true poem is the poet’s mind; the true ship is the shipbuilder.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays