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 charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Conversation is a game of circles.
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.