Emphatically Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frank Crocitto
Category: Poetry

Excite the soul, and it becomes suddenly virtuous. Touch the deep heart, and all these listless, stingy, beef-eating bystanders will see the dignity of a sentiment; will say, This is good and all I have I will give for that. Excite the soul, And the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.