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Essays: First Series (1841) Essay XII, 'Art'
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Emerson argues that beauty isn't something found only by traveling far away. Instead, it must already exist within the traveler, or it will never be discovered at all. The idea reframes the search for beauty as an inward task rather than a geographic one.
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