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
There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
When it is darkest, we can see the stars.
Every great man is unique.
Our distrust is very expensive.