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
We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.