The thing has done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

When Confucius and the Indian Scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom could be thought of... It is only within this century [the 1800 's] that England and America discovered that their nursery tales were old German and Scandinavian stories; and now it appears that they came from India, and are therefore the property of all the nations.