Ralph Waldo Emerson: Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to t — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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