Show emerson confessed poetry everything about a famous perso is interesting particularly when he writes about himself at a supreme moment of his life writing to his betrothed on the eve of their marriage ralph waldo emerson says of himself 1 I am born a poet of a low class without doubt yet a poet my singing to be 5 sure clr i is very husky and is for th the most 0 t par part in prose still I 1 am a poet in the sense of a perceiver and lover 0 of f the harmonies that are in the soul and in matter A sunset a forest I 1 a snowstorm a certain river view are more to me than many friends I 1 and do ordinarily divide my day I 1 with my books |