The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul (1841). copy citation

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Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source The Over-Soul
Topic work soul
Date 1841
Language English
Reference in "Essays: First Series"
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“They seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior, but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholds again, and blesses the things which it hath made. The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works. The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done. Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;” source