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
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
It is a tie between men to have read the same book.
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.