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
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Invention breeds invention.
A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored
Only poetry inspires poetry.