Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Eyes...They speak all languages.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Today is a king in disguise.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.