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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

Book by Robert D. Richardson Jr. · 1 quotes · Bacon, Cicero, Emerson

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“The first sentence of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s that reached me still jolts me every time I run into it. “Meek young men,” he wrote in “The American Scholar,” “grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books…”

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