Quotation Love

I’ve fallen in love with this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man who’s captured my love of the written word to a T in simply gorgeous prose:

Men are born to write… Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it. Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes therefore commended to his pen, and he will write. In his eyes, a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported.

I couldn’t have said it better, but I’ll keep on trying to do so.

Taken from Zen Habits’ article on lifehacking throught Emerson’s wisdom.  I’m captivated.