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 mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
What you are comes to you.
A man of no conversation should smoke.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.