Journeys of Imagination on an Icy Day - The Monday Morning Memo

Journeys of
Imagination
on a
Frozen Day

Taken atop the Tower
at Wizard Academy
by Vice-Chancellor
Dave Young

“Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not 'Devil's wine,' but God's wine. …So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low and plain, that the common influences should delight him. His cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight; the air should suffice for his inspiration, and he should be tipsy with water. …If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.”

- from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Poet collected in Essays, second edition

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