Ralph Waldo Emerson
2017 citations

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). Society and solitude, Letters and social aims

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