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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
Whatever limits us we call fate.
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.