13.11.07

Self-Reliance

We have kind of an influential crush on Ralph Waldo Emerson

envy in ignorance
suicide in imitation
vibrating my heart against
its iron string
accept your transcendent destiny
release your bound handkerchiefs
so the world can smite you
with its displeasure
bring back the nonconsistency
regrets as false prayers

"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members."
"To be great is to be misunderstood..."
"Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind?"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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