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
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.
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.
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.