I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Zebulon PikeAbout author
- Author's profession: Soldier
- Nationality: american
- Born: January 5, 1779
- Died: April 27, 1813
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All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson