Emerson's Essays: First and Second Series I read in it about a thousand things I'd experienced but I'd thought were impossible to describe. It was written to i

Emerson's Essays: First and Second Series I read in it about a thousand things I'd experienced but I'd thought were impossible to describe. It was written to inspire people, and inspired me daily for many years—nay, eternally! It—and Emerson's other writings, e.g. Representative Men, Conduct of Life, Nature, Addresses and Lectures etc—gave all the drops of my blood eyes that look upwards.