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
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
We walk alone in the world.
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
Immitation is suicide.
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.