Monday, October 22, 2012
Emerson's description of a woman
Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental
force, and astonished me by her amount of life, when I saw her day after
day radiating,
every instant, redundant joy and grace on all around her. She was a
solvent powerful to reconcile all heterogeneous persons into one society: like
air or water, an
element of such a great range of affinities, that it combines readily with a
thousand substances. Where she is present, all others will be more than
they are wont. She
was a unit and whole, so that whatsoever she did, became her. She
had too much
sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say, her manners were
marked with dignity, yet no princess could surpass her clear and erect demeanor
on each occasion. She did not study the Persian grammar, nor the books of the
seven poets, but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her. For,
though the bias of her nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she
so perfect in her own nature, as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of
her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing, as she did, that by dealing nobly
with all, all would show themselves noble.
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