12-31-2012, 01:46 PM
(12-31-2012, 01:00 PM)billy Wrote: is that a quote or an excerptThe poem is so long, hundreds of pages, that i would call it a quote.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
from Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'success' although the poem is attributed to Emerson, it is believed to have been originally written by Bessie A. Stanley
later than the date of Emerson's deathstill, the quote and the poem or exceptional.
It pops up somewhere during the description of the different angels among lucifers fallen army.
There is alot of good imagery in the work.
I think it would make an amazing movie, alot better than the 10 commandments.
If it was not so tied in with religion, i would expect it to be required reading in public school.


