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
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.
A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike....
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Love, and you shall be loved.
Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.
The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.
Convert life into truth.
Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.