It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
Wine is earth's answer to the sun.
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
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