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
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
The finest poetry was first experience.
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Wherever there is power there is age.
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.