Adventures Of A Sofa

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“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. But the poet names the thing because he sees it, or comes one step nearer to it than any other. This expression or naming, is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first, as a leaf out of a tree.“

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Poet,” Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics, 2003)

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