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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
To be gret is to be misunderstood.
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.