Muriel Strode
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode, “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers,” Open Court magazine (1903)
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Muriel Strode
Source
Muriel Strode, “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers,” Open Court magazine (1903)
In full
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
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Public domain in the United States
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About this line
Muriel Strode published this in a 1903 poem, and for a hundred years it traveled under Ralph Waldo Emerson’s name. It’s hers. Restoring the credit is the whole point of the page.
Why we carry this line
Handing the quote back to the woman who wrote it is the entire reason it’s here.
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