Emerson wanted to acknowledge that there was higher power or else there would be no world. Emerson believed that each individual could transcend or move beyond the physical world of senses into deeper spiritual experience through free will and intuition. One of Emerson’s quotes state “All that I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.” This quote shows how he feels about trusting the higher power and thanking it for the things he has and the things he does not have yet. Poe wrote about the things that people did in the dark, the things that people did not want to talk about. Poe has a quote “ Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear”. He is explaining to people that when you see something it may
