Emerson

McDonald channeled us into Holiday's last year of life, in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.

Audra McDonald's amazing performance as Billie Holliday in 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill' must win her a Tony.

It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.

He has not, like a modern Emerson, surrendered himself to nature, but he has, at last, found his instincts worth trusting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Every artist was first an amateur.”

He may have meant no more than Emerson, who pictured ill health as a ghoul preying on the heart and life of its victims.

Give old Mr. Thoreau any seat he wants,” said I, “only Mr. Emerson must sit beside him.

The calm and peace which Emerson knew, we know; the perpetual benediction of past years which Wordsworth felt, all may feel.

Now Emerson was an anarch who flouted the conventions of art and life.

He attempted to put into practice Emerson's theory of anarchy.