The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that. It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet
Perquè el poeta pugui anomenar veritablement les coses, cal que es lliuri a l'aura divina que alena a través de les formes i sintonitzi amb ella. L'home intel·lectual aprèn ràpidament aquest secret: més enllà de l'energia del seu intel·lecte obsedit i conscient, és capaç d'una nova energia (com si l'intel·lecte es dupliqués), si s'abandona a la naturalesa de les coses; això significa que, a banda del seu poder privat com a individu, existeix un gran poder universal en el qual pot recolzar-se, obrint (no sense risc) les seves portes humanes, patint les etèries marees que roden i circulen a través seu: llavors és atrapat dins la vida de l'univers, el seu discurs és tro, el seu pensament llei i els seus mots universalment intel·ligibles com les plantes i els animals.
