The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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