E. Merrill Root Professions : Poet Born : January 4, 1895 Died : October 26, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by E. Merrill Root We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. E. Merrill Root nature dream heart Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat. E. Merrill Root stars home life Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well E. Merrill Root work positive happiness Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select. E. Merrill Root fastidious select We need a renaissance of wonder. E. Merrill Root renaissance wonder needs Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors