Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the ima…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.465, Library of America
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