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
Pride ruined the angels.
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
No one suspects the days to be gods.
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
The field cannot be seen from within the field.