| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 21577 |
| QUOTATION: | It was her stern necessity: all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower,
Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
And are but one. Beheld far off, they differ
As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
They dull its edge with their monotony. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Xenophanes,” Poems (1847). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Emerson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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