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
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg
There can be no high civility without a deep morality
This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it.
This time is a very good one if we but know what to do with it
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.