“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rhodora
The Rhodora
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Quotes from workThe Rhodora
"The Rhodora, On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower", or simply "The Rhodora", is an 1834 poem by American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th century philosopher. The poem is about the rhodora, a common flowering shrub, and the beauty of this shrub in its natural setting.
