Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.447, Penguin
topic: Beauty, Eye, Sky, Earth And Sky