Emerson Quote

"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."

When I read this my mind went absolutely nuts. I couldn't describe the beauty that was written in these words. My first reaction was very "surfacy" if you will. I was thinking about it such as the tree cutter, rather than the poet. Once I thought about it as a poet, I was blown away. The Sun, the most vital part of our existance, illumantes only the eye of the man, a person who thinks he knows it all. The man no longer sees the need to question anything, he only sees life as the tree cutter, rather than the poet. The tree cutter looks at thing superficially and agrees with what he has been taught and what his mind tells him on first reaction. The Child questions EVERYTHING!!! spend 5 minutes with a kid and you will have been asked over 40 questions. And they aren't being mennacing or anything like that. They are LEARNING!!! and that's the beauty of it. That is why the sunlight goes straight to the heart. They percieve it then they question it, and then they ask another question. Older people think that they all have the answer. They know what's up. That is complete and utter Bulls***. The kid is closer to having all of the answers than the man. One day a kid is going to ask the right question and is going to figure it all out. Another thing is the word choice when talking about the lighting of the eye. The mans eye is only luminated, big woop. The child's eye is SHINING!!! That is so much more epic. These kids are just bursting with light. Their light is so strong that it's giving off it's own. Ahh Emerson is definitely a man that will force you to think. And I think that's what he does in all of his writings. He wants you to think, he wants you to question it. And that is shown very loudly in this particular quote.