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
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.