Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin
topic: Essence, Names, Giving, Naming Things