Who wrote that 'the true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both'?
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Correct answer: C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explanation
Emerson, Nature (1836), ch. VI 'Idealism'.
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