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
A man's what he thinks about all day long
For everything you have missed you have gained something
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit
The finished man of the world must eat every apple once.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The artist must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.