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
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes about
You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.