"A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin."
— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date
August 31, 1837
Metaphor
"A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin."
Metaphor in Context
It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours.
(p. 70)
(p. 70)
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Pagination keyed to Stephen Whicher's Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Organic Anthology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. <eBooks@Adelaide>
Date of Entry
03/31/2010
