Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown

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Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes formed part of the transcedentalist movement. Period that was described by the Encyclopedia Brittanica as a "19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of man, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths".

Here you can find a sample of his work and thought titled DEPARTED DAYS.