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
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
A nation never falls but by suicide.
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.